Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in early Twentieth-Century German Thought - Chinese and Buddhist Philosophy in early Twentieth-Century German Thought -

A Peculiar Journey: Confucian Philosophy in German Thought Introduction: Whose Confucius? Which Confucianism?One: The Europeanization of Confucius The Chinese and the European Confucius Confucian China in German social thinking: Hegel and Weber Franz Rosenzweig and the banality of sagehood The anti-Socratic and Socratic Confucius Two: Retrieving Confucius: Buber, Misch, and Jaspers Georg Misch: The Confucian ethical revolution An exchange of life: Confucianism as self-reflective life-philosophy Confucianism: Too noble for Europe?Buber’s Confucius: Between particularism and pluralism Karl Jaspers: Confucius as a paradigmatic individual thinker Confucian philosophy as intercultural philosophy Conclusion The Problem of Life in China and Europe: Zhang Junmai, Eucken, and Driesch One: Zhang, Eucken, and Life-Philosophy Zhang’s intercultural contexts: Modernity, colonialism, and the crisis of life Zhang, Eucken, and the Chinese and European cultivation of life The problem of life in China and Europe A Chinese reading of Eucken’s philosophy of spirit The modern rebirth of Confucianism from the spirit of Kantianism Two: Zhang and Driesch between Republican China and Weimar Germany Hans and Margarete Driesch in Republican China Cosmopolitanism, politics, and race: Zhang and Driesch Driesch: Chinese thinking and East-West unity Weimar Confucianism and Weimar Orientalism Three: The Development of Zhang’s New Confucianism Zhang and the modernization of Confucianism From Eucken to Kant: Zhang’s later reflections on the problem of life Life-philosophical and Kantian Confucianism in Zhang and Mou Postscript Resentment and Ressentiment: Nietzsche, Scheler, and Confucian Ethics One: Resentment and Ressentiment Strawson on freedom and resentment Scheler’s conception of resentment Nietzsche and the constitutive force of ressentiment The resentment of Confucian China Two: Early Confucian Ethics and Resentment Resentment, recognition, and the lifeworld Interpersonal resentment and recognition in the Analects Resentment and the struggle for recognition The dialectic of recognition and resentment in the Analects Resentment and asymmetrical ethics Resentment and the ethics of alterity Three: Resentment and Intercultural Confucian Ethics A Nietzschean or a Confucian Ethos?Unfixing resentment Is the ethical the ultimate form of ressentiment?Confucian ethics and the politics of resentment Conclusion: A critical intercultural Confucianism Technology and the Way: Daoism in Buber and Heidegger Introduction: The perils of intercultural philosophy One: Daoism and German Philosophy Daoism in modern German philosophy The Hasidic Zhuangzi Two: Daoism and the Question Concerning Technology Responding to technological modernity with Daoist wuwei Heidegger, technology, and the way Technique and the Dao Conclusion Heidegger, Misch, and the “Origins” of Philosophy Introduction to philosophy: One or myriad beginnings?One: Questionable Origins Heidegger, history, and the question of the origin Heidegger and the Occidental essence of philosophy On the prejudices of the philosophers Two: Other Beginnings Another “another beginning”?Georg Misch and the multiplicity of origins Misch’s trans-perspectival Daoism Reflecting on another beginning: hermeneutics, the Yijing, and philosophy Conclusion Phenomenology, Eurocentrism, and Asia: Husserl and Heidegger One: Phenomenology and Buddhism Phenomenology as movement and way The European reception of Buddhism Husserl and the Buddha Husserl and the Kaizo between crisis and renewal Buddhism and the phenomenological movement Two: Husserl, Asia, and the Idea of Europe Husserl’s crises The problem of Husserl’s Eurocentrism Husserl and his others Decolonizing the lifeworld Husserl and the European idea of philosophy Three: Heidegger, Europe, and the Question of Asia The Occidental essence of philosophy and the crisis of the Occident Heidegger and the im/possibility of intercultural dialogue Conclusion Encounter, Dialogue, and Learning: Martin Buber and Zen Buddhism One: Buber and the Western Reception of Zen Buddhism The marginalization of Zen Buddhism in Western philosophy Learning and no-learning in Zen and Jewish personalism Anecdotes about learning Two: Dialogical Ethics and Zen Buddhist Ethics The concrete and the other A Zen ethos of encounter and dialogue Antinomianism, ethics, and Chan Buddhism Conclusion Nothingness, Language, Emptiness: Heidegger and Chan Buddhism One: The Question of Nothing Awakening to the basic question The question of the nothing in Carnap and Heidegger The question of nothingness in Western philosophy Two: Emptying Emptiness Emptiness, not sacredness Playing with and without words From an aporetic point of view The self-destructuring of emptiness Destructuring the communicative event Conclusion: Heidegger and intercultural hermeneutics Concerning a critical intercultural hermeneutics On the way to a critique of Eurocentric reason A Gingko leaf: An image between one and two Bibliography