Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-3644-7 • Hardback • June 2009 • $139.00 • (£107.00)
978-0-7391-3646-1 • eBook • April 2009 • $132.00 • (£102.00)
Haiming Wen is assistant professor of philosophy at Renmin University of China
Chapter 1 1. The Crisis of Creativity
Chapter 2 2. Getting Past the Eclipse of Creativity: Acknowledging the Philosophical Fallacy
Chapter 3 3. Intentionality/Meaning (yi) and Confucian Contextual Creativity
Chapter 4 4. Feelings (qing) and the Importance of History, Particularity, and Emergence in Context
Chapter 5 5. The Contextual Creativity of Key Philosophical Terms
Chapter 6 6. Chinese Philosophical Sensibility
Chapter 7 7. Chinese Metaphysical Creativity
Chapter 8 8. Chinese Epistemological Creativity: Thinking-and-Feeling (Mind) and Experience
Chapter 9 9. Confucian Pragmatism as a Post-Modern Comparative Philosophy
In this far-reaching and nuanced work, Wen Haiming juxtaposes Chinese philosophy with the American traditions of pragmatic naturalism and process philosophy?.this work is simultaneously a piece of critical scholarship and an original contribution to Chinese and comparative philosophy?. In short, the moment to inaugurate a newborn Chinese philosophical narrative has arrived (219). This book serves as both an invitation and a rich, suggestive beginning to that project....
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Haiming Wen has provided a lucid and perceptive discussion of the creative dimension of the Confucian tradition by correlating American pragmatism and Chinese thinking. The book is an outstanding contribuiton to comparative philosophy.
— Jiyuan Yu