Long-time friend of the blog, Sam Crane, blogs about his recent sit-down interview with Yu Dan, over at his blog, The Useless Tree.
Category Archives: Confucianism
Norton Critical Edition of Analects
The Norton Critical Edition of the Analects has just been published. Edited by Michael Nylan, it joins together Nylan’s Introduction, Simon Leys’s translation of the text, and a series of interpretive essays:
- Nicolas Zufferey • On the Ru and Confucius
- Robert Eno • In Search of the Origins of Confucian Traditions in Lu
- Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Tae Hyun Kim • The Formation of the Analects
- Eric L. Hutton • Mencius, Xunzi, and the Legacy of Confucius
- Luke Habberstad • The Sage and His Associates: Kongzi and Disciples across Early Texts
- Julia K. Murray • Visualizing Confucius and His Disciples from the Analects
- Thomas Wilson • Reading the Analects in the Sage’s Courtyard: A Modern Diner’s Guide to an Ancient Feast
- Sébastien Billioud and Vincent Goossaert • Confucius and his Texts: A Century of Crisis and Reinventions
- Yuming He • Talking Back to the Master: Play and Subversion in Entertainment Uses of theAnalects
- Henry Rosemont Jr. • On “New Confucianism”
- Sam Ho • Confucius on Film: Toward a Confucian Aesthetic
The choice of Leys’s translation — which consciously renders the text in modern, accessible language — may make sense in light of the Nylan’s objective in assembling this range of interpretive essays, which collectively “suggest that the Confucius we thought we knew is not the Kongzi of record and that this Kongzi is a protean figure given to rapid change and continual reevaluation.”
New Bilingual “Journal of Confucian Studies”
Journal of Confucian Studies (Chinese Thought and Culture Review)
The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) has recently approved to launch the Journal of Confucian Studies (Chinese Thought and Culture Review) and the Confucian Academy Press, devoted to the preservation and promotion of traditional Chinese culture. The Journal of Confucian Studies is the world’s only Chinese-English bilingual scholarly journal with the aim of promoting Chinese culture and conducting conversations among world civilizations. The Journal of Confucian Studies will be officially launched on August 1, 2014, at the 24th National Book Expo, co-held by SAPPRFT and People’s Government of Guizhou Province.
New Book: Perkins on Problem of Evil
An important new book is now available from Indiana University Press:
Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy
Franklin Perkins
New Book – Nothingness in Asian Philosophy
Nothingness in Asian Philosophy – Routledge 2014
by Douglas Berger (editor) & Jeeloo Liu (editor)
From the Description at Amazon:
“A variety of crucial and still most relevant ideas about nothingness or emptiness have gained profound philosophical prominence in the history and development of a number of South and East Asian traditions—including in Buddhism, Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, Hinduism, Korean philosophy, and the Japanese Kyoto School. These traditions share the insight that in order to explain both the great mysteries and mundane facts about our experience, ideas of “nothingness” must play a primary role.”
Call for Commentators for Eastern APA
Huaiyu Wang writes as follows (anyone interested please respond directly to him at wdhyana@gmail.com):
I am pleased to announce the tentative schedule for the following two panels for the Eastern APA meeting in Philadelphia. I would like to invite chairs for the two panels below and a commentator for each paper. (Please note that two papers have commentators already.)
Review of Virtue Ethics and Confucianism at NDPR
Hagop Sarkissian’s review of Virtue Ethics and Confucianism (Routledge, 2013) has been published at NDPR. Comments on the review or the book itself are welcome! I will also paste the review below. Thanks, Hagop!
CFP: Confucianism and Education
You are cordially invited to submit a proposal to:
Confucianism and Education: An International Symposium
University at Buffalo, October 17-9, 2014; Proposal Submission Deadline: June 15, 2014
For details, please visit Conference Website: http://gse.buffalo.edu/confucius.
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Report on 2nd RWCP (Xunzi on Authority)
2nd Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy (RWCP): “Xunzi on Authority”
Friday, April 11, 2014
Report by Marilie Coetsee
This April, Tao Jiang (Rutgers), Ruth Chang (Rutgers), and Stephen Angle (Wesleyen) invited scholars from around the country to Rutgers’second annual meeting on Chinese philosophy, focused this year on Xunzi’s work on authority. Falling in line with last year’s successful conference on “Nature and Value in Chinese and Western Philosophies,”this year’s workshop produced stimulating discussion about the variety of ways in which Xunzi’s work can contribute to and expand upon our conventional Western philosophical conceptions of authority.
Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy lecture by Ted Slingerland: “Trying Not to Try: Cooperation, Trust, and the Paradox of Spontaneity” on Friday, May 9 @5:30pm
THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
Welcomes: EDWARD SLINGERLAND (University of British Columbia)
With responses from: MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Please join us at Columbia University’s Religion department on Friday, May 9, 2014 at 5:30PM for his lecture called:
“Trying Not to Try: Cooperation, Trust, and the Paradox of Spontaneity”
Abstract: Many early Chinese thinkers had as their spiritual ideal the state of wu-wei, or effortless action. Continue reading →
