David L. Hall & Roger T. Ames 
Anticipating China [PDF ebook] 
Thinking through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture

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Abridged)

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Anticipating the Argument

1. Clearing a Path to China
2. Circles and Squares

1. Squaring the Circle

1. From Chaos to Cosmos
2. Rest and Permanence
3. The Watershed: Zeno and the Power of Paradox
4. Counterdiscourse: Heraclitus and Anaxagors
5. From Theoria to Theory
6. Counterdiscourse: The Sophists
7. Socrates and Plato: Eros and Its Ironies
8. Aristotle: Four Beginnings of Thought
9. Humanitas and the Imago Dei
10. The Persistence of the Rational Ethos
11. Counterdiscourse: Challenges to the Rational Ethos

2. The Contingency of Culture

1. The First and Second Problematics
2. China and the First Problematic
3. Comparing Comparative Methods
4. Intercultural Vagueness

3. Extending the Circle

1. Acosmotic ‘Beginnings’
2. Analogical Discource in the Confucian Analects
3. Experiments in Rationalism
4. The Emergence of Han Thinking
5. The Dominance of Han Thinking
6. A Closing Anticipation

Notes
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index

David L. Hall is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso and author of a number of works, including
Eros and Irony: A Prelude to Philosophical Anarchism; Thinking Through Confucius (with Roger T. Ames);
The Arimaspian Eye (a philosophical novel); and
Richard Rorty: Poet and Prophet of the New Pragmatism, all published by SUNY Press.
Roger T. Ames is Professor of Philosophy and editor of
Philosophy East and West. He is the author of
The Art of Rulership: A Study in Ancient Chinese Philosophical Thought; Thinking Through Confucius (with David L. Hall); co-editor of
Nature in Asian Traditions; Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice; and
Self as Person in Asian Theory and Practice, all published by SUNY Press.