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Concepts of Philosophy in Asia and the Islamic World
Vol. 1: China and Japan
Series:
The contributions to Concepts of Philosophy in Asia and the Islamic World reflect upon the problems implied in the received notions of philosophy in the respective scholarly literatures. They ask whether, and for what reasons, a text should be categorized as a philosophical text (or excluded from the canon of philosophy), and what this means for the concept of philosophy. The focus on texts and textual corpora is central because it makes authors expose their claims and arguments in direct relation to specific sources, and discourages generalized reflections on the characteristics of, for example, Japanese culture or the Indian mind. The volume demonstrates that close and historically informed readings are the sine qua non in discussing what philosophy is in Asia and the Islamic world, just as much as with regard to Western literature
Contributors are Yoko Arisaka, Wolfgang Behr, Thomas Fröhlich, Lisa Indraccolo, Paulus Kaufmann, Iso Kern, Ralf Müller, Gregor Paul, Lisa Raphals, Fabian Schäfer, Ori Sela, Rafael Suter, Christian Uhl, Viatcheslav Vetrov, Yvonne Schulz Zinda, and Nicholas Zufferey.
Contributors are Yoko Arisaka, Wolfgang Behr, Thomas Fröhlich, Lisa Indraccolo, Paulus Kaufmann, Iso Kern, Ralf Müller, Gregor Paul, Lisa Raphals, Fabian Schäfer, Ori Sela, Rafael Suter, Christian Uhl, Viatcheslav Vetrov, Yvonne Schulz Zinda, and Nicholas Zufferey.
Raji C. Steineck, Ph.D. (1999), Bonn University, is Professor of Japanology at the University of Zurich. He has published extensively on Japanese intellectual history and philosophy and pursues a long-term project on the Critique of Symbolic Forms (Frommann-Holzboog 2014, 2017).
Ralph Weber, Ph.D. (2007), University of St. Gallen, is Assistant Professor for European Global Studies at the University of Basel. His publications focus on Chinese and comparative philosophy as well as methodological and conceptual aspects of translinguistic and transcultural research.
Elena Louisa Lange, Ph.D. (2011), University of Zurich, is Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Japanology at the University of Zurich. Her current research is on the reception of Marx's Critique of Political Economy. Her publishing focuses mostly on value theory.
Robert H. Gassmann is Professor emeritus of Sinology at Zurich University (Switzerland). He presided the Swiss Asia Society and was chief-editor of the quarterly Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques. His fields of interest were language, history, and thought of Early China.
Ralph Weber, Ph.D. (2007), University of St. Gallen, is Assistant Professor for European Global Studies at the University of Basel. His publications focus on Chinese and comparative philosophy as well as methodological and conceptual aspects of translinguistic and transcultural research.
Elena Louisa Lange, Ph.D. (2011), University of Zurich, is Senior Researcher and Lecturer in Japanology at the University of Zurich. Her current research is on the reception of Marx's Critique of Political Economy. Her publishing focuses mostly on value theory.
Robert H. Gassmann is Professor emeritus of Sinology at Zurich University (Switzerland). He presided the Swiss Asia Society and was chief-editor of the quarterly Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques. His fields of interest were language, history, and thought of Early China.
Contents
Introduction: âWhat is Chinese Philosophy?â
âRalph Weber and Robert H. Gassmann
A Preliminary Overview of the Genealogy of zhexue in China, 1888-1930
âOri Sela
On the Early Marxist Concept of Philosophy in the PRC (1930sâ1950s)
âYvonne Schulz Zinda
Reviewing the Crisis of the Study of Chinese Philosophy â Starting from the âLegitimacy of Chinese Philosophyâ Debates
âLee Ming-huei
âSelf-Refutationâ (bèi) in Early Chinese Argumentative Prose: Sidelights on the Linguistic Prehistory of Incipient Philosophy
âWolfgang Behr
Philosophy? (Re)appreciating Squire Mèng and the MèngzÇ
âRobert H. Gassmann
The Zhuangzi on ming: Perspectives and Implications
âLisa Raphals
Philosophy in the Clothes of History: The Case of the Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu)
âNicholas Zufferey
The âWirkungsgeschichteâ of Wang Yangmingâs âTeaching in Four Propositionsâ up to Liu Zongzhou and Huang Zongxi
âIso Kern
Moving the Target to Catch an Arrow: Qian Zhongshuâs View of Analogies and Metaphors in Philosophical Reasoning
âViatcheslav Vetrov
âNew Confucianismâ and the Sinicization of Metaphysics and Transcendentalism: Conceptualizations of Philosophy in the Early Works of Xiong Shili and Mou Zongsan
âRafael Suter
âPhilosophyâ Reconsidered: The Theological Accentuation in Tang Junyiâs Modern Confucianism
âThomas Fröhlich
Philosophy? â On Tu Weimingâs âThe Continuity of Beingâ (1984)
âRalph Weber
Introduction: âWhat is Japanese Philosophyâ?
âRalph Weber and Robert H. Gassmann
KÅ«kaiʼs 空海 (774-835) Philosophy of Language Reflections on the Usage of the Word âPhilosophyâ
âGregor Paul
Form and Content in KÅ«kaiâs ShÅjijissÅgiâ
âPaulus Kaufmann
Philosophy and the Practice of Reflexivity On DÅgenâs Discourse about Buddha-Nature
âRalf Müller
A Zen Philosopher? â Notes on the Philosophical Reading of DÅgenâs ShÅbÅgenzÅ
âRaji C. Steineck
Ogyū Sorai and the End of Philosophy
âPaulus Kaufmann
Towards a Critical Public Sphere: Tosaka Jun on Philosophical Journalism and Journalistic Philosophy
âFabian Schäfer
What is Philosophy?: The Use and Abuse of Universalism in Modern Japanese Philosophy
âYoko Arisaka
What is Philosophy? On Globalizing Capitalism, the Modern Order of Knowledge, and the Spread of Philosophy to Japan
âChristian Uhl
Index
Part 1: China
Introduction: âWhat is Chinese Philosophy?â
âRalph Weber and Robert H. Gassmann
A Preliminary Overview of the Genealogy of zhexue in China, 1888-1930
âOri Sela
On the Early Marxist Concept of Philosophy in the PRC (1930sâ1950s)
âYvonne Schulz Zinda
Reviewing the Crisis of the Study of Chinese Philosophy â Starting from the âLegitimacy of Chinese Philosophyâ Debates
âLee Ming-huei
âSelf-Refutationâ (bèi) in Early Chinese Argumentative Prose: Sidelights on the Linguistic Prehistory of Incipient Philosophy
âWolfgang Behr
Philosophy? (Re)appreciating Squire Mèng and the MèngzÇ
âRobert H. Gassmann
The Zhuangzi on ming: Perspectives and Implications
âLisa Raphals
Philosophy in the Clothes of History: The Case of the Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu)
âNicholas Zufferey
The âWirkungsgeschichteâ of Wang Yangmingâs âTeaching in Four Propositionsâ up to Liu Zongzhou and Huang Zongxi
âIso Kern
Moving the Target to Catch an Arrow: Qian Zhongshuâs View of Analogies and Metaphors in Philosophical Reasoning
âViatcheslav Vetrov
âNew Confucianismâ and the Sinicization of Metaphysics and Transcendentalism: Conceptualizations of Philosophy in the Early Works of Xiong Shili and Mou Zongsan
âRafael Suter
âPhilosophyâ Reconsidered: The Theological Accentuation in Tang Junyiâs Modern Confucianism
âThomas Fröhlich
Philosophy? â On Tu Weimingâs âThe Continuity of Beingâ (1984)
âRalph Weber
Part 2: Japan
Introduction: âWhat is Japanese Philosophyâ?
âRalph Weber and Robert H. Gassmann
KÅ«kaiʼs 空海 (774-835) Philosophy of Language Reflections on the Usage of the Word âPhilosophyâ
âGregor Paul
Form and Content in KÅ«kaiâs ShÅjijissÅgiâ
âPaulus Kaufmann
Philosophy and the Practice of Reflexivity On DÅgenâs Discourse about Buddha-Nature
âRalf Müller
A Zen Philosopher? â Notes on the Philosophical Reading of DÅgenâs ShÅbÅgenzÅ
âRaji C. Steineck
Ogyū Sorai and the End of Philosophy
âPaulus Kaufmann
Towards a Critical Public Sphere: Tosaka Jun on Philosophical Journalism and Journalistic Philosophy
âFabian Schäfer
What is Philosophy?: The Use and Abuse of Universalism in Modern Japanese Philosophy
âYoko Arisaka
What is Philosophy? On Globalizing Capitalism, the Modern Order of Knowledge, and the Spread of Philosophy to Japan
âChristian Uhl
Index
All interested in the philosophy and the intellectual histories of China and Japan.