Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought

Youru Wang is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, and Coordinator of Asian Studies at Rowan University, Glassboro, USA. His areas of speciality include Chinese Buddhist and early Daoist thought. He is the author of Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism: The Other Way of Speaking, also published by Routledge (2003).

• Introduction Part 1: Ethical Dimension and Deconstruction of Normative Ethics in Asian Traditions 1. Dismantling Normativity in Indian Ethics - From Vedic Altarity to the Gita's Alterity 2. Deconstruction, Aporia and Justice in Nagarjuna's Empty Ethics 3. Zhuangzi's Ethics of Deconstructing Moralistic Self-Imprisonment: Standards without Standards 4. Deconstructing Karma and the Aporia of the Ethical in Hongzhou Chan Buddhism 5. The Ethics of Being and Non-Being: Confucian Contestations on Human Nature (Xing) in Late Imperial China 6. Lacking Ethics 7. The Ethical and the Non-Ethical: Nishida's Methodic Subversion Part 2: Similarities and Differences between Derridean-Levinasian and Asian Ethical Thought 8. Ethics and the Subversion of Conceptual Reification in Levinas and Santideva 9. Levinas and Laozi on the Deconstruction of Ethics 10. Hongzhou Chan Buddhism, and Derrida Late and Early: Justice, Ethics, and Karma 11. Transgression and Ethics of Tension: Wonhyo and Derrida on Institutional Authority 12. The Ethics of Attainment: The Meaning of the Ethical in Dogen and Derrida