Concepts of Philosophy in Asia and the Islamic World

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.

• ContentsPart 1: ChinaIntroduction: ‘What is Chinese Philosophy?’Ralph Weber and Robert H. GassmannA Preliminary Overview of the Genealogy of zhexue in China, 1888-1930Ori SelaOn the Early Marxist Concept of Philosophy in the PRC (1930s–1950s)Yvonne Schulz ZindaReviewing the Crisis of the Study of Chinese Philosophy – Starting from the ‘Legitimacy of Chinese Philosophy’ DebatesLee Ming-huei‘Self-Refutation’ (bèi) in Early Chinese Argumentative Prose: Sidelights on the Linguistic Prehistory of Incipient PhilosophyWolfgang BehrPhilosophy? (Re)appreciating Squire Mèng and the MèngzǐRobert H. GassmannThe Zhuangzi on ming: Perspectives and ImplicationsLisa RaphalsPhilosophy in the Clothes of History: The Case of the Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu)Nicholas ZuffereyThe ‘Wirkungsgeschichte’ of Wang Yangming’s ‘Teaching in Four Propositions’ up to Liu Zongzhou and Huang ZongxiIso KernMoving the Target to Catch an Arrow: Qian Zhongshu’s View of Analogies and Metaphors in Philosophical ReasoningViatcheslav Vetrov‘New Confucianism’ and the Sinicization of Metaphysics and Transcendentalism: Conceptualizations of Philosophy in the Early Works of Xiong Shili and Mou ZongsanRafael Suter‘Philosophy’ Reconsidered: The Theological Accentuation in Tang Junyi’s Modern ConfucianismThomas FröhlichPhilosophy? – On Tu Weiming’s ‘The Continuity of Being’ (1984)Ralph WeberPart 2: JapanIntroduction: ‘What is Japanese Philosophy’?Ralph Weber and Robert H. GassmannKūkaiʼs 空海 (774-835) Philosophy of Language Reflections on the Usage of the Word ‘Philosophy’Gregor PaulForm and Content in Kūkai’s Shōjijissōgi Paulus KaufmannPhilosophy and the Practice of Reflexivity On Dōgen’s Discourse about Buddha-NatureRalf MüllerA Zen Philosopher? – Notes on the Philosophical Reading of Dōgen’s ShōbōgenzōRaji C. SteineckOgyū Sorai and the End of PhilosophyPaulus KaufmannTowards a Critical Public Sphere: Tosaka Jun on Philosophical Journalism and Journalistic PhilosophyFabian SchäferWhat is Philosophy?: The Use and Abuse of Universalism in Modern Japanese PhilosophyYoko ArisakaWhat is Philosophy? On Globalizing Capitalism, the Modern Order of Knowledge, and the Spread of Philosophy to JapanChristian UhlIndex