Thinking Through Confucian Modernity

Sébastien Billioud, Ph.D. in Chinese studies (University Paris Diderot, 2004), is Associate Professor of Chinese Civilization at University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité. His research focuses on Confucianism in contemporary China with a cross-disciplinary approach in intellectual history and anthropology.

• IntroductionChapter 1. Setting the Ground for a True Autonomy of the Moral SubjectChapter 2. Appropriating a Pivotal Concept: Intellectual IntuitionChapter 3. Intellectual Intuition and Thing-in-Itself: Preserving the Possibility of a “Transcendent Metaphysics”Chapter 4. Rethinking Fundamental OntologyChapter 5. Moral Emotions and “Inter-Affectation”Chapter 6. Self-CultivationEpilogue

"Sébastien Billioud...has authored a superb study of the critical concept of moral metaphysics in Mou's magesterial intercultural revival of Confucian philosophy...[Thinking Through Confucian Modernity is] an accomplished philosophical examination of the mature work of a great modern Confucian philosopher."John Berthrong, Boston University School of Theology, The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 71, No. 4 (November 2012)"Billioud’s volume succeeds in providing us with a deep analysis of Mou’s moral metaphysics in terms of its connections with Kantian transcendental philosophy and Heideggerian thinking on Being." Wing-cheuk Chan, Brock University. Philosophy East & West Volume Vol. 63, No. 4 (October 2013)