Author: Roger T. Ames

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Carine Defoort is Professor of Sinology at the University of Leuven in Belgium. She is the author of The Pheasant Cap Master (He guan zi) : A Rhetorical Reading, also published by SUNY Press, and the coeditor (with Nicolas Standaert) of The Mozi as an Evolving Text: Different Voices in Early Chinese Thought. Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Hawai”i. His many books include Confucian Cultures of Authority (coedited with Peter D. Hershock) and Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections (coedited with Hsingyuan Tsao), both also published by SUNY Press.




20 Ebooks by Roger T. Ames

Roger T. Ames & David L. Hall: The Democracy of the Dead
Will democracy figure prominently in China’s future? If so, what kind of democracy? In this insightful and thought-provoking book, David Hall and Roger Ames explore such questions and, in the course …
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Shudong Chen: Comparative Literature in the Light of Chinese Prosody
In the light of Chinese prosody and various mutually illuminating major cases from the original English, Chinese, French, Japanese and German classical literary texts, the book explores the possibili …
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€109.40
Paul Nietupski & Joan O’Mara: Reading Asian Art and Artifacts
This book begins with the understanding that, in addition to its aesthetic qualities, Asian art and material artifacts are expressive of cultural realities and constitute a ‘visible language’ with me …
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€54.05
Roger T. Ames: Confucian Role Ethics
In this landmark work, noted comparative philosopher Roger T. Ames interprets how the classics of the Confucian canon portray the authentic, ethical human being. He argues that many distinguished com …
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Carine Defoort & Roger T. Ames: Having a Word with Angus Graham
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. Ove …
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Roger T. Ames: Human Becomings
2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In Human Becomings, Roger T. Ames argues that the appropriateness of categorizing Confucian ethics as role ethics turns largely on the conception of person that …
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Peter D. Hershock & Roger T. Ames: Human Beings or Human Becomings?
Great transformations are reshaping human life, social institutions, and the world around us, raising profound questions about our fundamental values. We now have the knowledge and the technical expe …
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Peter D. Hershock & Roger T. Ames: Confucian Cultures of Authority
This volume examines the values that have historically guided the negotiation of identity, both practical and ideal, in Chinese Confucian culture, considers how these values play into the conception …
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Joseph Grange: John Dewey, Confucius, and Global Philosophy
Joseph Grange’s beautifully written book provides a unique synthesis of two major figures of world philosophy, John Dewey and Confucius, and points the way to a global philosophy based on American an …
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€34.99
David L. Hall & Roger T. Ames: Anticipating China
By providing parallel accounts of the contrasting developments of classical Chinese and Western traditions, Anticipating China offers a means of avoiding the implicit cultural biases which so often d …
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€37.99
David L. Hall & Roger T. Ames: Thinking from the Han
This book continues a comparative project begun with the authors’ Thinking Through Confucius and Anticipating China. It continues the comparative discussions by focusing upon three concepts–self, tr …
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David L. Hall & Roger T. Ames: Thinking Through Confucius
Thinking Through Confucius critically interprets the conceptual structure underlying Confucius’ philosophical reflections. It also investigates ‘thinking, ‘ or ‘philosophy’ from the perspective of Co …
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Hsingyuan Tsao & Roger T. Ames: Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art
How Chinese is contemporary Chinese art? Treasured by collectors, critics, and art world cognoscenti, this art developed within an avant-garde that looked West to find a language to strike out agains …
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Roger T. Ames: A Conceptual Lexicon for Classical Confucian Philosophy
Over the years, Roger T. Ames and his collaborators have consistently argued for a processual understanding of Chinese natural cosmology made explicit in the Book of Changes. It is this way of thinki …
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€40.99
Roger T. Ames: A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy
Roger T. Ames’s A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy is a companion volume to his Conceptual Lexicon for Classical Confucian Philosophy. It includes texts in the original classical Chinese …
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€48.99
Chun-chieh Huang & John A. Tucker: Confucianism for the Twenty-First Century
This collection of essays explores the resilience and relevance of an ancient yet still vital teaching, Confucianism, for the century ahead and beyond, finding in its many dimensions insights meaning …
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€55.00
Roger T. Ames: Living Chinese Philosophy
In Living Chinese Philosophy, Roger T. Ames uses comparative cultural hermeneutics as a method for contrasting classical Greek ontology (‘the science of being in itself’) with classical Chinese ‘zoet …
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Jana S. Rošker & Roger T. Ames: The Philosopher Li Zehou
Li Zehou (1930–2021) was one of China’s most prominent contemporary philosophers, transforming Confucian philosophy into a resource for positive change. From a critical rereading of the Analects to a …
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