Looks at how different religious traditions (Christian, Buddhist, neopagan, and animist) have attempted to resacralize the earth and provide new values that include the more-than-human world.

Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.

Argues that Daoism and dandyism, linked by likeminded philosophies of “carefree wandering,” deconstruct the puritanism and political correctness sought by Confucianism, Victorianism, and contemporary neoliberal culture.

An analysis of the philosophy of the Yijing in comparison to modern Western philosophies.

Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.

Presents Li Zehou's culminating views on ethics in a series of works that highlight the importance of Confucian philosophy today.

Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism.

Uses a comparative hermeneutical method to explain the most important terms in the classical Confucian philosophical texts, in an effort to allow the tradition to speak on its own terms.

Offers three neo-Confucian understandings of broadening the Way as broadening oneself, through an ongoing process of removing self-boundaries.

Explores the aesthetic theory of one of China's most important and influential contemporary philosophers.

The ancient concept of spontaneous self-causation (ziran) from Daoism opens a path to understanding human action as self-organizing, attention as effortless, and art as somatic.

An introduction to ancient Chinese ideas on how to live a good life.

Posits the origin of a specifically Chinese concept of “word-meaning,” and sheds new light on the linguistic ideas in early Chinese philosophical texts.

A unique work on the underlying ontology, cosmology, and moral philosophy of the Yijing.

Offers a compelling intercultural perspective on body, art, self, and society.

Offers an in-depth exposition of the Confucian conception of persons as the starting point of Confucian ethics.

Argues that Confucianism and other East Asian philosophical traditions can be resources for understanding and addressing current global challenges such as climate change and hunger.

Argues that the only way to understand the Confucian vision of the consummate moral life is to take the tradition on its own terms.

Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers’ meditations on artistic expression.

Challenges descriptions of East Asian societies as Confucian cultures and communitarian Confucian models as a political alternative to liberal democracy.

Argues that we move beyond philosophy that is simply “comparative” and uses John Dewey’s late period reflections as the basis for an alternative.

Assesses John Dewey’s visit to China in 1919–21 as an “intra-cultural” episode and promotes “Chinese natural philosophy” as a philosophical context in which to understand the connections between Dewey’s philosophy and early Confucian thinking.

Reveals the complicity between the Kyoto School’s moral and political philosophy, based on the school’s founder Nishida Kitarō’s metaphysics of nothingness, and Japanese imperialism.

Investigates the cosmological and metaphysical thought in the Zhuangzi from the perspective of nothingness.

Proposes an “intra-cultural philosophy” based on John Dewey’s “cultural turn” and promotes Daoist thought as a resource that can help to reconstruct outmoded assumptions that continue to shape how we currently think.

Explores how writers across five continents and four centuries have debated ideas about what it means to be an individual, and shows that the modern self is an ongoing project of global history.

A holistic reinterpretation of Santayana’s thought in terms of a dramatic philosophy of life.

Offers the first focused study of the shifei debates of the Warring States period in ancient China and challenges the imposition of Western conceptual categories onto these debates.

Critically introduces the philosophical system of Li Zehou, one of the most significant modern scholars of Chinese history and culture.

The first comprehensive treatment of Inoue Enryō, a pioneer of modern Buddhism and a key figure in the reception of Western philosophy in East Asia.

A meditation on how religious language tries to limn the liminal, conceive the inconceivable, speak the unspeakable, and say the unsayable.

A wide-ranging exploration and critical assessment of the work of a major figure in Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.

An encounter between Franke’s philosophy of the unsayable and Eastern apophatic wisdom in the domains of poetry, thought, and culture.

Attempts to think anew about philosophical questions from the perspective of breath and breathing.

Explores how the emotional experience of gratitude has been enlisted in neoliberal governance through the language of debt.

A study of comparative metaphysics that explores the concepts of Reality and Appearance and their relevance to contemporary religious consciousness.

A comparative analysis of Confucianism and the American Transcendentalist and Pragmatist traditions.

Discusses the conditions of possibility for intercultural and comparative philosophy, and for crosscultural communication at large.

Discusses philosophers Mencius and Aristotle as socio-ecological thinkers.

A reconsideration of the Confucian concept li (ritual or ritual propriety), one that references Western philosophers as well as the Chinese context.

Discusses the journey of Buddhist ideas on awareness and personhood from India to China.

A fresh reading of Oakeshott’s contributions to the ongoing conversation of modern political thought.

A consideration of Confucian ethics that employs the work and concerns of the eminent comparative ethicist Joel J. Kupperman.

A wide ranging consideration of the work of contemporary ethicist David Wong.

Continues the author’s inquiry into the development of the Chinese philosophical concept Li, concluding in Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism.

Uses Buddhist philosophy to discuss diversity as a value, one that can contribute to equity in a globalizing world.

Explores the development of Chinese thought, highlighting its concern with questions of coherence.

A critique of the modern receptions of Islamic Peripatetic philosophy and a validation of the importance of Islamic philosophy for modern philosophy

A cross-cultural work which reinvigorates the consideration of enlightenment.

Argues that philosophy, as multidisciplinary comparative inquiry, is essential to the contemporary academic study of religion.

A much-needed consideration of methodology in comparative philosophy.

A work of and about comparative philosophy that stresses the importance of language in intercultural endeavors.

Brings Confucianism and Daoism into conversation with contemporary philosophy and the contemporary world situation.

Traces the roots of logos in different cultural milieux.

A groundbreaking work that uncovers an implicit system of hermeneutics in traditional Chinese thought and aesthetics.

Bringing together the philosophies of John Dewey and Confucius, this work illustrates a means for cultural interaction and provides a model of global philosophy.

Puts Schelling in conversation with twentieth-century continental philosophy.

Addresses the psycho-physical dualism of the Nyaya school of Indian philosophy with references to both Indian and Western philosophy.

Distinguished scholars provide the first book-length consideration of the work of philosopher and theologian Robert Cummings Neville, including a response from Neville himself.

Replaces communal altruism with communal egoism as a way of solving problems of too much violence and too little peace in the twenty-first century.

With a focus on educational computing, this book examines how technological practices align with or subvert existing forms of dominance. Examines the important question: Is the enormous financial investment school districts are making in computing tech

This book is an examination of nineteenth-century interpretations of Socrates by Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche in the light of the contemporary debates over rationality in the modern world. These ...