Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology.
This volume engages with the works and ideas of Angus Charles Graham (1919–1991), one of the most prominent Western scholars of Chinese philosophy, at the twenty-fifth anniversary of his passing. Over a professional career of more than thirty years, Angus Graham produced an impressive amount of scholarship on a wide array of topics, ranging from Chinese grammar and philology to poetry and philosophy. His combination of rigorous scholarship and philosophical originality has continued to inspire scholars to tackle related research topics, and in so doing, has required of them a response to his views. This book illustrates the range of scholarship still elaborating upon, disagreeing with, and reacting to Graham’s work on Chinese thought, philosophy, philology, and translation.
Table of Content
Introduction: Having a Word with Angus Graham: At the First Twenty-Five Years into His Immortality
Carine Defoort and Roger T. Ames
1. Reading the Zhuangzi Anthology
Esther S. Klein
2. Reflections on Textual Analysis in the Post-Graham Era
Liu Xiaogan
3. Cognitive Attunement in the Zhuangzi
Harold D. Roth
4. Vital Matters, A.C. Graham, and the Zhuangzi
Michael Nylan
5. Remarks on Intertranslatability and Relativism
Henry Rosemont, Jr.
6. Getting to the Bottom of ‘Things’ (wù物): Expanding on A.C. Graham’s Understanding
Robert H. Gassmann
7. Míng (名) as ‘Names’ Rather than ‘Words:’ Disabled Bodies Speaking without Acting in Early Chinese Texts
Jane Geaney
8. Unfounded and Unfollowed: Mencius’ Portrayal of Yang Zhu and Mo Di
Carine Defoort
9. Reconstructing A.C. Graham’s Reading of Mencius on xing性: A Coda to ‘The Background of the Mencian Theory of Human Nature’ (1967)
Roger T. Ames
10. Reason and Spontaneity Reconsidered
Lisa Raphals
11. Spontaneity and Marriage
Paul Kjellberg
12. Rationalism and Anti-Rationalism in Later Mohism and Zhuāngzǐ
Chris Fraser
About the Contributors
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About the author
Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University. His published works include translations of the Chinese philosophical canons and several interpretive studies.
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