The Chinese-language “Confucian Web” (儒家网) has announced its top 10 books of 2019, in both Academic and General categories. Read on for the lists and short descriptions!
Author Archives: Steve Angle
Journal Issue Dedicated to Li Zehou
Asian Studies has just published a new issue entitled “Ethics and the Beauty of Human Becoming: Special Issue dedicated to Li Zehou on his 90th Birthday.” You can download the whole issue or essays from it at https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/as/issue/current. The Table of Contents follows.
Stanchina on Wang Yangming and Sloterdijk
Back in 2015, Gabriella Stanchina published a fascinating comparative article titled “Zhi 知as unceasing dynamism and practical effort. The common root of knowledge and action in Wang Yangming and Peter Sloterdijk” in Wenxue: Journal of the ECNU Simian Institute for advanced studies in Humanities. Because the journal is not readily available, she has received permission to share it here. Enjoy!
CFP: 16th Annual Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought
16th Annual Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought
University of Louisville (Louisville, KY)
April 25-26, 2020
The Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought (MCCT) is an annual conference dedicated to exploring past and present aspects of Chinese thought. It is an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars and students coming from disciplines or fields such as philosophy, religious studies, history, philology, and other disciplines or fields in the humanities and social sciences. While the conference is hosted each year by an institution in the Midwest United States, we welcome the participation of scholars and students from around the world.
CFP: Association for Political Theory
The organizers tell me “We welcome papers in Chinese and comparative political philosophy and hope that we will receive many submissions from philosophers and theorists who work in these fields.”
2020 Association for Political Theory Call for Papers
Proposal Deadline: Monday, February 10, 2020
The Association for Political Theory Annual Conference (University of Massachusetts Amherst, November 12th-14th, 2020)
Program Committee Co-Chairs: Jennie Ikuta (University of Tulsa) andK ennan Ferguson (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
The Association for Political Theory (APT) invites paper proposals for its annual conference to be held November 12th-14th, 2020, at the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. We will consider papers on all topics in political theory, political philosophy and their cognate disciplines, from scholars working in any field at any institution. Any scholars who are ABD or who hold a terminal degree in their fields may apply; we also encourage faculty members to volunteer to serve as chairs and/or discussants.
New Book: State-Society Relations and Confucian Revivalism in Contemporary China
Qin PANG has published State-Society Relations and Confucian Revivalism in Contemporary China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); see here for details. The abstract:
This book is a study of the causes of the Confucian revival and the party-state’s response in China today. It concentrates on the interactions between state and society, and the implications for the Chinese state’s control over society, or in other words, its survival over a rapidly modernizing society. The book explores the answers to questions such as: Why has Confucianism suddenly gathered great momentum in contemporary Chinese society? What is the role of the Chinese state in its rise? Is the state really the orchestrator of the Confucian revival as has been widely assumed? This book will be of interest to think-tank and policy researchers, sinologists, and those with an interest in Chinese society.
Job at National Chengchi University
The Philosophy Department at National Chengchi University is advertising for one or two open-rank positions in East West philosophy. Please see here. Questions can be addressed to:
Ms. Yu-Tung Chan
Tel: 886-2-29393091 ext.62362
Fax: 886-2-29390514
E-mail：amandach@nccu.edu.tw
KIM Sang-jun at CEACOP on 17 January
Title: The Political Unconscious of Confucianism
Speaker: KIM Sang-jun
Date: 17 January 2020 (Friday)
Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Venue: Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy (Room 4433, Mong Man Wai Building)
More information here.
Ames at CEACOP on 16 January
Title: Human “Becomings” – Theorizing “Persons” for Confucian Role Ethics
Speaker: Roger T. Ames
Date: 16 January 2020 (Thursday)
Time: 17:00 – 18:30
Venue: Center for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy (Room 4433, Mong Man Wai Building)
More information here.
ISCWP Jan 2020 Newsletter
The ISCWP has published its January, 2020 Newsletter here. This issue features updates from the society’s members on their various activities and a listing of conference panels organized by the society for the 2020 divisional meetings of the APA.
