Landscape and Travelling East and West: A Philosophical Journey

Hans-Georg Moeller is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland.Andrew K. Whitehead is the Manager of the Irish Institute of Japanese Studies in the Department of Philosophy at University College Cork, the Executive Director of the Académie du Midi Institute of Philosophy, and has recently been appointed Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of History and Philosophy at Kennesaw State University, USA.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction (Hans-Georg Moeller)Part I: Strolls and Scrolls 1. Landscape and Travelling in Early Chinese Thought (Ouyang Xiao)2. Landscape as an Aesthetic Person: On the Conceptual World of German Romanticism (Rolf Trauzettel)3. The Landscape of Yinyang: Philosophy and Shanshui Painting (Robin Wang)4. Landscape, Travel, and a Zhuangist Reply to Nagel’s Cosmic Question (Chris Fraser)Part II: Buddhist Journeys 5. Hoben as Pedagogical Landscape (Andrew Whitehead)6. On the Shikoku Pilgrimage (John Harding) 7. Travelling through Tibet: Images and Mirages (Snjezana Zoric) 8. A Walk Through Some Zen Landscapes of the Heart (John Maraldo) Part III: Contemporary Paths 9. Journeying and Locality in Migration (Andrea Martinez) 10. Wandering and/or Being at Home: Zhuangzi and Heidegger (Franklin Perkins) 11. On the Way - Foolish Notes of an Old Nomadic Poet-Philosopher (Günter Wohlfart) 12. Transcultural Reflections on the Limits of Travel (Mario Wenning) Part IV: Landscape and Travelling as Philosophical Metaphors 13. The Way of Transmission in Confucianism (Roger Ames and Henry Rosemont) 14. A Daoist Response to Ames and Rosemont (Paul D’Ambrosio) 15. The Moral Landscape in the Philosophy of Tang Junyi (Ady Van den Stock) 16. Travelling with Laozi and Plato (May Sim) Index

An inspiring collection of diverse and fascinating journeys through time, space and cultures, this book is an ideal companion for wondering and wandering philosophers, East-West comparativists and intellectual flâneurs of any kind.