Subjectivity and Selfhood in Chinese Philosophy

Kai Marchal is 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). 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.

• Introduction - Kai Marchal, Ellie Hua Wang, Part I The Importance of Perspective, 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, Part II Awareness, Self-Consciousness, and the Reality of Appearances, 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, Part III Self and Other: Ethical and Aesthetical Perspective, 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.