Subjectivity and Selfhood in Chinese Philosophy

Phenomenological, Comparative and Historical Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-485-6635-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: East Asian Philosophy and Political Thought

Human beings have always been concerned with fundamental questions about their selves, including the deeply personal nature of human experience, the persistence of the self over time, the relation between mind and body, and the interdependence between self and community. The goal of this volume is to rethink these questions against the backdrop of the Chinese philosophical traditions, covering the ideas of major thinkers from Classical to late imperial China, with a particular focus on the fact that human experience is necessarily characterized by the first-person perspective. The contributors to this volume employ different methods (historical, comparative, phenomenological), but they all aim at bringing the rich resources of Chinese philosophy to life in our global present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Ellie Hua

Marchal, Kai

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Kai Marchal, Ellie Hua Wang
1. Perspective, Dwelling, and Phenomenology in Early Chinese Philosophy – Franklin Perkins
2. Self-Knowledge, Perspective, and the Possibility of Understanding in Zhuangzi’s Happy Fish Dispute – Meng-Ting Chiang, Lee-Chun Lo, Kai-Yuan Cheng
3. “Not Having a Heart” (wu xin) or the Paradox Between Existence and Knowledge in the Philosophy of Guo Xiang – Dennis Schilling
4. The Sense Organs, Awareness and Luminosity in Classical Chinese and Indian Thought – Douglas L. Berger
5. Selfhood and Subjectivity in Neo-Confucianism – Kai Marchal
6. On Taking Appearances Seriously: Phenomenology, New Confucianism, and the Yogachara Theory of Consciousness – Christian Coseru
7. Self, Mind, and Consciousness: Comparative Reflections – Zhihua Yao
8. Ritual and Confucian Shame – Ellie Hua Wang
9. Kierkegaard, Confucius, and the Intersubjective Dance – Sheridan Hough
10. The Bodily Self in Ancient Chinese Arts and in Twentieth-Century Euro-American Painting – Mathias Obert
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marchal, Kai
Kai Marchal is an Associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at National Chengchi University in Taipei. His most recent publication is a monograph in German: Im Spiegel der All-Einheit. Selbst- und Weltbezug im chinesischen Mittelalter (Klostermann Publisher, 2024).

Wang, Ellie Hua
Ellie Hua Wang is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. She has published papers on early Confucianism and cross-cultural studies in ethics, moral psychology, and metaethics. Her current work focuses on ritual and its role in ethical transformation.