Human beings have always been concerned with fundamental questions about their selves, including the deeply personal nature of human experience, the persistence of the self over time, the relation between mind and body, and the interdependence between self and community. The goal of this volume is to rethink these questions against the backdrop of the Chinese philosophical traditions, covering the ideas of major thinkers from Classical to late imperial China, with a particular focus on the...

Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in the Chinese-Speaking World: Reorienting the Political examinesthe reception of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in China and Taiwan. The legacies of bothSchmitt, the German legal theorist and thinker who joined the Nazi party, and Strauss, theGerman-Jewish classicist and political philosopher who became famous after his emigrationto the United States, are highly controversial. Since the 1990s, however, these thinkers havehad a ...

David B. Wong is one of the most distinguished moral philosophers today, recognized for his research in ethics, moral psychology, comparative ethics, and Chinese philosophy. In this collection, volume editors Ellie Hua Wang and Kai Marchal interweave five of Wong's career-defining lectures with responses and reflections from contemporary philosophers and scholars who specialize in Chinese philosophy, allowing readers to more easily comprehend philosophical debates and engage with the deepe...