2026 Publications 32 titles
Ancient Greek and Indian Buddhist Philosophers on Reality and Selfhood
Brings ancient Greek and Indian Buddhist philosophers into comparative discussion around reality and selfhood, including consciousness, personal identity, composition, skepticism, and rebirth.
A Confucian Theory of Power
Develops a distinctively Confucian account of political power and its legitimate exercise.
Confucius: A New Tradition
Reconsiders the life, thought, and later cultural uses of Confucius in light of newly available evidence.
Consciousness in Indian Philosophy: Illuminating Mind, World, and Self
Introduces major Indian philosophical theories of consciousness and their implications for mind, world, and self.
Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Daodejing
A large research companion to the Daodejing addressing its concepts, commentarial traditions, rhetoric, ethics, politics, and comparative philosophical significance.
Dialogues of Confucius: The Complete Text
Presents a complete English translation of the Kongzi Jiayu, a major collection of dialogues and traditions concerning Confucius.
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Early Buddhist Hedonism: The Role of Spiritual Pleasure in the Pali Discourses
Reassesses the role of pleasure in early Buddhist thought by examining spiritual pleasure in the Pāli discourses.
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The Ends of Human Life: Indian and Chinese Perspectives
Compares Indian and Chinese approaches to human flourishing, purpose, ethical life, and the ends of human existence.
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Environmental Equity in China and Beyond: Past, Present, and Future
Places Chinese approaches to environmental equity in historical and comparative perspective.
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Experimental Music and Japanese Aesthetics: Silence, Nature, and Hollow Listening
Brings Japanese aesthetic concepts into dialogue with experimental music, focusing on silence, nature, and listening.
Handbook of Indic Philosophy and Religion
A wide-ranging reference volume on philosophical and religious traditions of South Asia.
Inquiry: Philosophical Perspectives
Collects essays on the nature, norms, and aims of inquiry across epistemology and philosophical methodology.
Japanese Philosophies of Education: Watsuji Tetsurō and Mori Akira
Introduces the educational philosophies of Watsuji Tetsurō and Mori Akira, focusing on emptiness, learning and unlearning, creativity, community, and the balance between action and letting go.
Korean Buddhism: Selected Readings from Primary Texts
Introduces Korean Buddhism through twenty-five translated primary texts, with selections addressing doctrine, meditation, moral psychology, intercultural exchange, colonialism, and liberation.
The Linguistic Quandary of Environmental Hermeneutics: Applications from Heidegger, Li Zehou, Gadamer and Zhuangzi
Develops an environmental hermeneutics through comparative engagement with Heidegger, Gadamer, Li Zehou, and the Zhuangzi.
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Meritocracy in Early Chinese Political Thought
Examines arguments for merit and political selection in early Chinese philosophy and their continuing normative significance.
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Nature and the Environment in World Philosophies: Diversifying Environmental Thought
Broadens environmental philosophy by bringing multiple world-philosophical traditions into conversation about nature and ecological responsibility.
Nishidian Philosophy and The Body: Unraveling the Difficulty of Living
Examines embodiment in Nishida-inspired philosophy, using the body to explore self and other, social existence, suffering, and the “difficulty of living” in modern Japanese thought.
Phenomenology of Tea: A Dialogue on Japanese Aesthetics
Uses the Japanese tea ceremony as an entry into Japanese aesthetics, philosophy, and religious practice, connecting phenomenology and Kyoto School thought with gardens, architecture, calligraphy, poetry, pottery, Buddhism, Daoism, and Shinto.
Philosophies of Self: A Cross-Cultural Introduction
Introduces diverse philosophical conceptions of self across global traditions while resisting simplistic East–West dichotomies and orientalist frameworks.
Qi as Lived Experience: Breath, Wind, Potency, and Mind in Chinese Thought
Examines qi as a lived and embodied category across Chinese philosophy, medicine, religion, and cultural practice.
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Reading Primary Sources in Chinese Philosophy: A Guide
A methodological guide to reading, interpreting, and teaching primary texts in Chinese philosophy.
Readings in Korean Confucian Philosophy
Provides translated selections and philosophical framing for major texts and debates in Korean Confucian thought.
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Reframing Dynamism: Indic Philosophies of Being, Time, and Freedom
Develops a comparative account of dynamism in Indic philosophy through questions of being, temporality, freedom, and lived experience.
Standards and Reference in Early Chinese Philosophy of Language: Mohist Concepts, Practices, and Texts
Reconstructs early Chinese philosophy of language through standards (fa) and examples (ju), with special attention to Mohist texts and debates about reference, classification, communication, and predication.
The Upanisads as They Are
Offers a philosophically oriented engagement with the Upaniṣads that foregrounds their arguments, conceptual tensions, and diverse voices.
Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future
Uses dialogical argument to connect ancient Chinese political ideas with contemporary debates about governance, merit, hierarchy, and political life.
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“Metaphors in the Laozi”
Examines metaphor as a central mode of philosophical expression and argument in the Laozi.
“Prioritizing the Shengren 聖人 in the Laozi”
Reassesses the role of the shengren, or sage, as a central organizing concept in the Laozi.
“Silence and Rhetorical Questions in the Daodejing”
Analyzes silence and rhetorical questions as philosophically significant strategies in the Daodejing.
“The Origins of the Legend of Master Wen: The Relation Between the Laozi and the Wenzi”
Investigates the textual and philosophical relationship between the Laozi and the Wenzi through the legend of Master Wen.
“‘Great Authority’ in the Daodejing as Framed by Hannah Arendt”
Places the Daodejing’s account of great authority in comparative dialogue with Hannah Arendt’s political thought.
2025 Publications 31 titles
All Things Act
Develops a collective and ecological account of agency in which action emerges through interdependent agents, environments, and conditions rather than from isolated individuals.
The Art of Becoming Infinite: Mou Zongsan’s Vertical Rethinking of Self and Subjectivity
Examines Mou Zongsan’s account of the self, subjectivity, transcendence, and moral transformation.
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Chinese Philosophy in Transcultural Contexts: Comparative Approaches and the Method of Sublation
Develops a method of sublation for transcultural philosophy and applies it to dialogues among Chinese, Sinophone, and European thinkers from ancient logicians to twentieth-century intellectuals.
Communitarianism, Confucianism and the Self
Develops a comparative account of community, identity, pluralism, and the self through Confucian and communitarian perspectives.
Confucian Comparative Political Philosophy
Develops comparative political philosophy through sustained engagement with Confucian concepts and contemporary normative questions.
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Considering, Questioning and Reimagining Harmony: Multicultural, Multihistorical and Multidisciplinary Reflections
Reconsiders harmony across philosophical traditions, historical periods, and disciplines.
Daoist Phenomenology: A Vertical Reading
Brings Daoist thought into sustained conversation with phenomenology, especially Heidegger, to rethink human experience and reality.
Debating Transcendence: Creatio ex nihilo and Sheng Sheng
Compares Christian creation ex nihilo with the Confucian notion of sheng sheng in a constructive philosophy of religion.
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Dialogues with Classical Chinese Philosophy
Stages constructive philosophical conversations with major ideas and texts from classical Chinese thought.
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Doing Metaphysics in a Diverse World: How We Make Sense of Things Across Cultures
Shows how metaphysical inquiry changes when philosophical traditions from different cultures are treated as genuine interlocutors.
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Engaging Philosophies of Religion: Thinking Across Boundaries
Reframes philosophy of religion through cross-cultural and global philosophical traditions, including Asian resources and non-Western conceptions of religious life.
Epistemological Theory in Classical Chinese Philosophy: In Search of the Way
Develops a systematic account of knowledge in classical Chinese philosophy, emphasizing relational epistemology and the search for the Way.
How Confucius Changed My Mind: And What He Can Teach You about the Art of Being Human
A philosophically reflective introduction to Confucian cultivation and its relevance to contemporary life.
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Introducing Chinese Philosophy: From the Warring States to the 21st Century
Introduces major Chinese philosophical traditions while tracing their development into modern and contemporary thought.
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Jiaohua: Chinese Ideas and Practices of Moral Transformation
Studies jiaohua as a Chinese model of moral cultivation, education, transformation, and social formation.
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Merleau-Ponty and Utpaladeva: A Radically Phenomenal View of Embodiment
Brings Merleau-Ponty into comparative dialogue with the Kashmiri Śaiva philosopher Utpaladeva to develop a cross-cultural account of embodiment and phenomenal experience.
Metaphor and Analogy in Chinese Thought: Governance within the Person, State, and Society
Examines metaphor and analogy as modes of philosophical reasoning in Chinese thought, especially the connections among governance of the person, the state, and society.
Metaphysics as Therapy: List-Making and Renunciation in Gnostic Yogas
Examines Indian gnostic and yogic traditions as therapeutic metaphysical practices, with attention to lists, renunciation, liberation, and philosophical method.
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy
Collects new essays by specialists on major figures, texts, traditions, methods, and problems in Chinese philosophy, providing a wide-ranging reference work for the field.
The Philosopher Li Zehou: His Thought and His Legacy
Brings together scholars from China, Europe, and the United States to assess Li Zehou’s philosophy, including his work on Confucianism, Kant, Marx, aesthetics, ethics, and modernity.
Progressive Confucianism and Its Critics: Dialogues from the Confucian Heartland
Collects debates over Progressive Confucianism and the possibilities of reforming Confucian thought for contemporary ethical and political life.
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Provincialising Pluralism: Difference and Diversity in South Asian Traditions
Reconsiders pluralism through South Asian philosophical and religious traditions, foregrounding indigenous theories of difference, diversity, and disagreement.
Readings of the Gateless Barrier
Pairs a new English translation of the Gateless Barrier with scholarly and practitioner essays on its history, literary form, philosophy, gender, embodied practice, and continuing life in Chan and Zen traditions.
Rethinking Philosophy of Religion with Wittgenstein: Religious Diversities and Racism
Uses Wittgenstein to rethink philosophy of religion through religious diversity, race, and cross-cultural traditions, including Chinese philosophical and religious thought.
Ritual Performance in Early Chinese Thought: A Dramaturgical Perspective
Interprets ritual in early Chinese philosophy through dramaturgy, performance, role, and embodied social practice.
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Santideva and the Dynamics of Tradition: Doctrinal, Social, and Interreligious Contexts
Reassesses Śāntideva in doctrinal, social, and interreligious contexts, bringing Buddhist ethics and philosophy into wider comparative discussion.
Self-Cultivation in Chinese and Greco-Roman Philosophy
Compares Chinese and Greco-Roman models of self-cultivation, intellectual practice, ritual, craft, and human flourishing.
Subjectivity and Selfhood in Chinese Philosophy: Phenomenological, Comparative and Historical Perspectives
Investigates Chinese conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood through historical, phenomenological, and comparative approaches.
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Thinking without Borders
Uses cross-cultural philosophy to reconsider familiar problems in metaphysics, epistemology, mind, and ethics.
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Tibetan Sky-Gazing Meditation and the Pre-History of Great Perfection Buddhism: The Skullward Leap Technique and the Quest for Vitality
Studies Tibetan sky-gazing and the intellectual prehistory of Great Perfection Buddhism through contemplative practice, embodiment, vitality, and philosophical interpretation.
Towards Confucian Republicanism: Democracy as Virtue Politics
Develops a Confucian republican theory that treats democracy as a form of virtue-centered political practice.
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2024 Publications 33 titles
Appropriating the Dao: The Euro-American Esoteric Reception of China
Examines modern Euro-American esoteric appropriations and reinterpretations of Daoist ideas and Chinese traditions.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Justice and East Asian Philosophy
Brings East Asian philosophical resources to contemporary debates in global justice.
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Chinese Philosophy and its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
A three-volume survey spanning more than three thousand years of Chinese philosophy, from Zhou-period thought to contemporary environmental philosophy and bioethics, with attention to major figures as well as thinkers often left out of standard histories.
Comparative Approaches to Compassion: Understanding Nonviolence in World Religions and Politics
Examines compassion and nonviolence comparatively across religious and philosophical traditions.
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Confucian Feminism: A Practical Ethic for Life
Uses distinctive Confucian concepts, methods, and concerns to rethink gender oppression and liberation, developing a practical ethic in which Confucian and feminist approaches transform one another.
Contemplative Studies & Jainism: Meditation, Prayer, and Veneration
Studies Jain contemplative thought and practice through meditation, prayer, veneration, ethics, and philosophical reflection.
Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave: Buddhist-Platonist Philosophical Inquiries
Places Platonic and Indian Buddhist traditions into direct philosophical dialogue, using comparison to illuminate shared and divergent approaches to central problems in ethics, metaphysics, and philosophical practice.
Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Thought
Offers an accessible narrative introduction to Indian philosophy, weaving Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist arguments together with the historical, cultural, religious, and textual settings in which they developed.
The Early Confucian Philosophy of Agency: Virtuous Conduct
Interprets early Confucian thought as a philosophy of agency grounded in virtuous conduct, roles, rituals, and motivation.
Embodiment Theory and Chinese Philosophy: Contextualization and Decontextualization of Thought
Uses embodiment theory to rethink interpretation, context, and conceptual transfer in Chinese philosophy.
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Ethical Theory in Global Perspective
Places ethical traditions from multiple cultures—including Asian traditions—into direct philosophical comparison.
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Freedom’s Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang’s Zhuangzi
Explores freedom and self-realization in Guo Xiang’s influential commentary on the Zhuangzi.
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Greening Philosophy of Religion: Process, Ecology, and Ethics
Develops ecological and process-oriented approaches to philosophy of religion, addressing climate catastrophe, ecological democracy, comparative ethics, and religious naturalism.
The Highest Good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita
Compares Aristotle and the Bhagavad Gītā on the highest good, action, practical reason, and flourishing.
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Humane Liberality: A Confucian Proposal
Constructively engages liberalism through Confucian ethics and the Mencius.
In the Mind, in the Body, in the World: Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece
Compares theories and practices of emotion in early Chinese and ancient Greek philosophy.
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The Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi: With Copious Annotations from the Chinese Commentaries
A richly annotated translation of the Inner Chapters that brings the Chinese commentary tradition directly into the English edition.
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Interrelatedness in Chinese Religious Traditions: An Intercultural Philosophy
Develops ethical interrelatedness through comparative study of Song Confucian and Chan Buddhist texts.
Living Chinese Philosophy: Zoetology as First Philosophy
Uses comparative cultural hermeneutics to contrast substance ontology with a Chinese zoetological account of reality as living, relational, and processual.
The Metaphysics of Meditation
Examines meditation through Indian philosophical debates about consciousness, self, reality, and transformative knowledge.
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Miki Kiyoshi’s The Logic of Imagination: A Critical Introduction and Translation
Makes Miki Kiyoshi’s major work on imagination available in English with philosophical introduction and contextualization.
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Mind, Body and Self
Brings Indian and analytic philosophical resources into dialogue on mind, body, selfhood, consciousness, and personal identity.
The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy: Nishida Kitaro and the Meiji Period
Reassesses the emergence of modern Japanese philosophy by placing Nishida Kitaro in dialogue with Meiji-period predecessors and contemporaries.
Out of Sight, Into Mind: The History and Philosophy of Yogic Perception
Traces the intellectual history of yogic perception in India and Tibet, showing how accounts of extraordinary perception shifted from vision-centered to mind-centered models and why these debates matter for comparative philosophy today.
Reading the I Ching (Book of Changes)
Provides a guide to reading the Yijing as a complex classical text and philosophical tradition.
The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics: Women, Justice, Bioethics and Ecology
Surveys Indian ethical traditions through contemporary questions of women, justice, bioethics, ecology, and cross-cultural moral philosophy.
The Self in the West and East Asia: Being or Becoming
Contrasts Western and East Asian models of selfhood around the philosophical difference between being and becoming.
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Tetsugaku Companion to Feeling
Explores feeling across Japanese and comparative philosophy, including sustained engagement with Nishida Kitarō and related traditions.
Those Who Act Ruin It: A Daoist Account of Moral Attunement
Develops a Daoist ethics of attunement that challenges voluntarist models of moral agency.
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Tianxia in Comparative Perspectives: Alternative Models for a Possible Planetary Order
Examines tianxia comparatively as a philosophical and political resource for thinking about relationality, global justice, governance, and possible forms of planetary order.
Treatise on Reality and Function
English translation and study of Xiong Shili’s major modern Chinese philosophical work on reality, function, mind, and transformation.
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Zhuangzi: Ways of Wandering the Way
Offers a philosophically focused interpretation and translation of the Zhuangzi centered on its many ways of wandering the Way.
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“The Feeling of Happiness, Moral Sentimentalism and Knowing-to: On Nishida Kitarō’s Energetism”
Examines happiness, moral sentimentalism, practical knowing, and energetism in Nishida Kitarō’s philosophy.
2023 Publications 29 titles
Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China
Compares Indian and Chinese traditions of political thought and statecraft to widen the history of political philosophy.
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Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being
Interprets Śāntideva’s ethics through contemporary questions about virtue, well-being, altruism, and moral psychology.
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Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea
Reconstructs a Chinese philosophical tradition of cosmopolitan thinking and its implications for contemporary political philosophy.
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Confucian Constitutionalism: Dignity, Rights, and Democracy
Develops a Confucian constitutional theory of dignity, rights, democracy, and political legitimacy.
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Confucian Iconoclasm
Reconsiders modern Chinese critiques, transformations, and reconstructions of the Confucian tradition.
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Confucian Relationism and Global Ethics: Alternative Models of Ethics and Axiology in Times of Global Crises
Uses Confucian relationism to develop alternative models of ethics and value for contemporary global crises.
Consciousness Mattering: A Buddhist Synthesis
Develops a Buddhist-informed, relational account of consciousness and evolution, asking how differences become meaningful and how consciousness participates in the emergence of value and significance.
Dialogue and Decolonization: Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives
Examines dialogue as a philosophical and political practice in relation to colonialism, decolonization, intellectual history, and cross-cultural philosophy.
Diversifying Philosophy of Religion: Critiques, Methods and Case Studies
Challenges narrow canons and methods in philosophy of religion through global traditions, methodological critiques, and cross-cultural case studies.
Doing Philosophy Comparatively
A methodological account of how to conduct philosophical comparison responsibly across traditions.
The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies: A Critique
Critically examines the historical and methodological conditions for philosophical encounter between Chinese and Western traditions.
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Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology
Collects original essays on modal knowledge, modal metaphysics, thought experiments, armchair methods, and the methodology of philosophy.
The Future of China’s Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China’s Rise
Examines how China’s classical philosophical past is mobilized in contemporary debates about culture, politics, and modernity.
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Heidegger and Dao: Things, Nothingness, Freedom
Reads Heidegger and Daoist philosophy together through questions of things, nothingness, freedom, letting-be, and dwelling, using Daoist resources to deepen an intercultural account of living with the natural world.
Humanism in Trans-civilizational Perspectives: Relational Subjectivity and Social Ethics in Classical Chinese Philosophy
Develops a trans-civilizational account of humanism through relational subjectivity and social ethics in classical Chinese philosophy.
Intercultural Phenomenology: Playing with Reality
Uses Nishida, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and Japanese aesthetics to develop a practice-oriented intercultural phenomenology.
Key Concepts in World Philosophies: A Toolkit for Philosophers
Provides conceptual tools for doing philosophy across a range of global traditions without treating European categories as universal.
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Late Classical Chinese Thought
A systematic study of major philosophical developments in the later Warring States period, including ethics, mind, language, and political thought.
Living Confucianisms: Strategies for Optimizing Harmony
Explores contemporary ways of living, adapting, and practicing Confucian thought around the ideal of harmony.
New Perspectives in Indian Philosophy
Collects and reintroduces philosophical work by Kalidas Bhattacharyya within twentieth-century Indian philosophy.
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The Philosophy of Change: Comparative Insights on the Yijing
Develops the philosophy of the Yijing in comparative conversation with Western metaphysics, science, religion, Leibniz, Whitehead, and theories of change.
The Philosophy of the Yogasutra: An Introduction
Introduces the Yoga Sūtra as a philosophical text concerned with mind, practice, metaphysics, and liberation.
Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, Third Edition
A substantially updated edition of the major anthology of classical Chinese philosophy, presenting translated selections from Confucian, Daoist, Mohist, and other early Chinese texts.
Reshaping Confucianism: A Progressive Inquiry
Reconstructs central Confucian ideas for contemporary philosophical life, critically developing the tradition rather than treating it as a fixed historical inheritance.
Rethinking Meditation: Buddhist Meditative Practice in Ancient and Modern Worlds
Argues that meditation cannot be separated from the cultural and historical worlds that give it meaning, tracing the transformation of Buddhist meditative practices from premodern settings into modern global contexts.
Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu’s Metaphysics
Brings Vasubandhu’s Buddhist metaphysics into contemporary philosophy of mind, examining what a genuinely selfless account of persons, cognition, and experience might require.
A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy
Collects and organizes key passages from the classical Confucian tradition with translations and philosophical framing designed for comparative and constructive study.
A Spiritual Geography of Early Chinese Thought: Gods, Ancestors, and Afterlife
Argues that gods, ancestors, afterlife, and ritual are philosophically significant within early Chinese moral and political thought.
“The Dialogical and Therapeutic Paradigms in Indian Philosophy”
Examines dialogue and therapy as philosophical paradigms for understanding Indian traditions of argument, self-transformation, and liberation.
2022 Publications 31 titles
Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen Studies: Chinese Chan Buddhism and Its Spread throughout East Asia
Examines the transmission and transformation of Chan across China, Korea, and Japan through historical and philosophical studies of East Asian Zen traditions.
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Early Chinese Ethics and Political Philosophy
Surveys major problems and methods in early Chinese ethics and political philosophy.
Capitalism—its Nature and its Replacement: Buddhist and Marxist Insights
Brings Buddhist and Marxist philosophical resources to a critique of capitalism and possible alternatives.
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Chinese Philosophy and Philosophers: An Introduction
Introduces major Chinese thinkers and traditions through philosophical categories familiar to students while remaining grounded in the distinctive language, arguments, and concerns of the primary traditions.
Classical Indian Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 5
A historical and philosophical survey of classical Indian traditions, arguments, schools, and debates.
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Comparative Philosophy and Method: Contemporary Practices and Future Possibilities
Examines competing methods, aims, and future directions in comparative philosophy.
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Comparing Husserl’s Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World: A Journey Beyond Orientalism
Brings Husserlian phenomenology and Chinese Yogācāra into sustained comparison, using their accounts of consciousness and experience to challenge inherited Orientalist divisions between philosophical traditions.
A Conceptual Lexicon for Classical Confucian Philosophy
Provides a comparative hermeneutical treatment of central terms in classical Confucian philosophy, emphasizing relational, processual, and role-based meanings.
Confucianism and Phenomenology: An Exploration of Feeling, Value and Virtue
Brings Confucian thought and phenomenology into dialogue around feeling, value, subjectivity, and virtue.
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Cross-Cultural Approaches to Consciousness: Mind, Nature, and Ultimate Reality
Brings multiple philosophical traditions into conversation on consciousness, mind, nature, and ultimate reality.
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Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi
A research companion covering central philosophical problems, interpretive debates, and contemporary approaches to the Zhuangzi.
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Daoist Resonances in Heidegger: Exploring a Forgotten Debt
Examines resonances and possible lines of influence between Daoist thought and Heidegger’s philosophy.
Dialogue and the New Cosmopolitanism: Conversations with Edward Demenchonok
Develops a dialogical cosmopolitanism through discussions of democracy, justice, pluralism, the good life, and alternatives to domination.
Doing What You Really Want: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mengzi
Presents a systematic interpretation of Mengzi centered on desire, agency, self-cultivation, moral psychology, and the problem of acting on what one genuinely values.
Emotions in Korean Philosophy and Religion
Studies emotion across Korean Confucian, Buddhist, religious, and philosophical traditions.
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Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Virtue Epistemology
Places Ernest Sosa’s virtue epistemology into dialogue with Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist philosophy, testing concepts such as intellectual virtue, agency, accuracy, adroitness, and aptness across traditions.
Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life
Presents Confucianism as a living practice of moral cultivation, inviting readers to reflect on and experiment with Confucian approaches to ethical growth in contemporary life.
Histories of Philosophy and Thought in the Japanese Language: A Bibliographical Guide from 1835 to 2021
A bibliographical guide to Japanese-language histories of philosophy and thought, documenting the development of philosophical historiography in Japan.
New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism: Institution, Gender, and Secular Society
Examines modern Korean Buddhism through institutions, gender, secularization, colonialism, reform, and changing forms of Buddhist social life.
The Philosophy of the Brahma-sutra: An Introduction
Introduces the Brahma-sūtra as a philosophical text and traces the interpretive problems that shaped Vedānta.
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Religion and Sustainability: Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses
Brings religious and philosophical traditions into interdisciplinary dialogue about sustainability, environmental ethics, and ecological responsibility.
The Routledge Handbook of Indian Buddhist Philosophy
A comprehensive research handbook covering the major schools, figures, arguments, and themes of Indian Buddhist philosophy.
Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation
A broad philosophical handbook on meditation across traditions and contemporary areas of inquiry.
Tetsugaku Companion to Nishida Kitarō
A comprehensive companion to Nishida Kitarō covering his key concepts, historical context, comparative engagements, and continuing philosophical significance.
Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited
Reassesses Paramārtha through philological, historical, and doctrinal study, revisiting the relationship between Yogācāra and Tathāgatagarbha thought and challenging established pictures of his intellectual project.
Truth and Politics: Toward a Post-Secular Community
Examines truth, politics, modernity, religion, and democratic life while developing the possibility of a post-secular political community.
Wisdom within Words: An Annotated Translation of Dōgen’s Chinese-Style Poetry
Provides an annotated translation and philosophical interpretation of Dōgen’s Chinese-style poetry, linking poetic expression with Zen thought and practice.
Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
Provides a philosophically oriented introduction to Zen history, ideas, practices, kōan traditions, arts, and ethics, connecting textual study with the lived dimensions of Zen practice.
Ziran: The Philosophy of Spontaneous Self-Causation
Develops ziran as a philosophical theory of spontaneity and self-causation, drawing on early Chinese thought.
“Gender and Dharma Lineage: Nuns in Korean Sŏn Buddhism”
Examines gender, authority, and Dharma lineage among Korean Sŏn Buddhist nuns.
“Zen Internationalism, Zen Revolution: Inoue Shūten, Uchiyama Gudō and the Crisis of (Zen) Buddhist Modernity in Late Meiji Japan”
Explores Zen internationalism, radical politics, and Buddhist modernity through Inoue Shūten and Uchiyama Gudō in late Meiji Japan.
2021 Publications 40 titles
Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action
Develops adapting as a distinct model of action in Chinese philosophy, drawing on classical texts to rethink agency as responsive, relational, and situated rather than simply the execution of prior intentions.
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy
Surveys theories of emotion and subjectivity across classical Indian philosophical traditions.
Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future
Uses Buddhist philosophy to examine artificial intelligence and intelligent technology, with particular attention to attention, values, ethics, and more humane technological futures.
The Confucian Revival in Taiwan: Xu Fuguan and His Theory of Chinese Aesthetics
Examines Xu Fuguan’s modern Confucian aesthetics and its significance within twentieth-century Taiwanese and Chinese philosophy.
Confucianism and Deweyan Pragmatism: Resources for a New Geopolitics of Interdependence
Places Confucian philosophy and Deweyan pragmatism in constructive dialogue as resources for a geopolitics grounded in relationality, interdependence, and ecological experience.
Contemplative Studies and Hinduism: Meditation, Devotion, Prayer, and Worship
Examines Hindu contemplative traditions through philosophical, historical, and interdisciplinary studies of meditation, devotion, prayer, worship, and embodied practice.
The Dao of Madness: Mental Illness and Self-Cultivation in Early Chinese Philosophy and Medicine
Investigates the role of madness (kuang) and mental difference in early Chinese discussions of self-cultivation, medicine, and ideal personhood, bringing historical materials into contemporary philosophical conversation.
The Daode jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying: Daoism, Buddhism, and the Laozi in the Tang Dynasty
Makes Cheng Xuanying’s influential Tang-dynasty commentary available in English and explores its Daoist-Buddhist philosophical context.
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Dogen: Japan’s Original Zen Teacher
Introduces Dōgen’s life, writings, Zen practice, and philosophical significance for readers approaching the founder of Japanese Sōtō Zen.
Exploring the Heart Sutra
Combines translation, commentary, philosophical analysis, and interdisciplinary methods in a study of the Heart Sūtra.
Female Philosophers in Contemporary Taiwan and the Problem of Women in Chinese Thought
Studies women philosophers in contemporary Taiwan while locating their work in wider Chinese philosophical debates about gender, personhood, modernity, and tradition.
God and the World’s Arrangement: Readings from Vedānta and Nyāya Philosophy of Religion
Presents translated primary texts and philosophical commentary on arguments about God, order, causation, and religious knowledge in Vedānta and Nyāya.
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A History of Classical Chinese Thought
English translation of Li Zehou’s influential philosophical history of classical Chinese thought.
Human Beings or Human Becomings?: A Conversation with Confucianism on the Concept of Person
Brings Confucian and related East Asian resources into comparative discussion of relational personhood, sociality, self-cultivation, and human transformation.
In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata
Reads the Mahābhārata as a dialogical philosophical text and explores its ethical, political, and existential arguments.
Indian and Intercultural Philosophy: Personhood, Consciousness, and Causality
Uses Indian philosophy to rethink personhood, consciousness, causality, and the practice of intercultural philosophy.
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Intelligence and Wisdom: Artificial Intelligence Meets Chinese Philosophers
Collects leading Chinese philosophers’ reflections on artificial intelligence, human nature, ethics, and society.
Interpreting Chinese Philosophy: A New Methodology
Critiques the imposition of Western conceptual frameworks on Chinese philosophy and proposes a transcultural methodology of interpretation.
Love and Friendship Across Cultures: Perspectives from East and West
Brings Eastern and Western philosophical traditions into dialogue on love and friendship, including Confucian, Buddhist, Greek, and Southeast Asian perspectives.
Meaning and Non-Existence: Kumārila’s Refutation of Dignāga’s Theory of Exclusion
A critical edition, translation, and philosophical study of Kumārila’s engagement with Dignāga’s apoha theory of meaning.
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Nonviolent Resistance as a Philosophy of Life: Gandhi’s Enduring Relevance
Treats Gandhi’s nonviolence as a philosophical way of life with continuing ethical and political relevance.
Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China: Contestation of Humaneness, Justice, and Personal Freedom
Reconstructs the emergence of early Chinese moral-political philosophy through competing accounts of humaneness, justice, and personal freedom, emphasizing contestation among formative schools and thinkers.
Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian Buddhism
Uses Buddhist philosophical texts to investigate mind, world, other lives, and the ethical significance of forms of mindedness.
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Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism
Reconstructs the early history of the Daodejing through bodily cultivation, philosophical enactment, and its social and political contexts.
Philosophical Methodology in Classical Chinese and German Philosophy
Brings classical Chinese and German philosophy into methodological dialogue around identity and difference, harmony, metaphysics, and transcendental thought.
Philosophy’s Big Questions: Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches
Organizes comparative Buddhist-Western philosophy around major questions concerning reality, knowledge, self, ethics, and human life.
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A Practical Guide to World Philosophies: Selves, Worlds, and Ways of Knowing
Introduces philosophy through multiple world traditions and questions assumptions about self, world, knowledge, and philosophical method.
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Pyrrhonian Buddhism: A Philosophical Reconstruction
Constructively compares Pyrrhonian skepticism and Buddhism as philosophical paths oriented toward freedom from dogmatic attachment.
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Rethinking ‘Classical Yoga’ and Buddhism: Meditation, Metaphors and Materiality
Reconsiders the relationship between classical Yoga and Buddhism through meditation, metaphor, materiality, and the historical exchange of philosophical ideas.
Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies
A multidisciplinary research handbook on yoga and meditation that includes sustained engagement with Indian and Buddhist philosophical traditions.
Self-Cultivation Philosophies in Ancient India, Greece, and China
Provides a systematic comparative account of self-cultivation traditions in ancient India, Greece, and China.
Suffering and Evil in Nature: Comparative Responses from Ecstatic Naturalism and Healing Cultures
Offers comparative philosophical responses to suffering and violence in nature through ecological thought, ecstatic naturalism, phenomenology, Confucian resources, and traditions of healing.
A Time of Novelty: Logic, Emotion, and Intellectual Life in Early Modern India, 1500–1700 C.E.
Reconsiders the relation between philosophy and history through logic, emotion, and intellectual novelty in early modern India.
Tracing the Path of Yoga: The History and Philosophy of Indian Mind-Body Discipline
A historical and philosophical survey of yoga as a set of Indian mind-body disciplines.
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Transitions: Crossing Boundaries in Japanese Philosophy
Collects studies of transitions, boundaries, and conceptual movement in modern and contemporary Japanese philosophy.
What Can’t Be Said
Examines ineffability, contradiction, and the limits of language through Buddhist and East Asian philosophical materials alongside contemporary work in logic and philosophy.
“Logik der Grenze: Räume des Übergehens im Anschluss an Nishida Kitarō”
Develops a philosophy of boundaries and transition through engagement with Nishida Kitarō and modern Japanese philosophy.
“The Instability of Non-dual Knowing: Post-Gnosis Sādhana in Vidyāraṇya’s Advaita Vedānta”
Examines the instability of non-dual knowledge and the continuing role of sādhana after liberating insight in Vidyāraṇya’s Advaita Vedānta.
“Transition to the ‘Eternal Present’: Nishida Kitarō’s Notion of Self and Responsibility in Our Context Today”
Uses Nishida Kitarō’s account of the eternal present to examine selfhood, responsibility, and the ethical demands of contemporary life.
“Why Meditate on God? The Role of Īśvara-praṇidhāna in the Classical Sāṃkhya and Yoga Tradition”
Investigates the philosophical role of devotion to Īśvara within classical Sāṃkhya-Yoga theories of meditation and liberation.
2020 Publications 36 titles
The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them
Introduces eight foundational Chinese philosophical texts while teaching readers how to approach their distinctive forms of argument and expression.
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Asian Religious Responses to Darwinism: Evolutionary Theories in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian Cultural Contexts
Surveys Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Confucian, Daoist, and Muslim responses to Darwinism and other evolutionary theories, emphasizing cultural context and questions concerning struggle, randomness, purpose, and human exceptionalism.
Becoming Human: Li Zehou’s Ethics
Interprets Li Zehou’s ethics, anthropology, and account of human formation within modern Chinese philosophy.
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language
A systematic research survey of major problems, schools, and thinkers in Indian philosophy of language.
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta
Surveys contemporary research on Vedānta across its major schools, debates, figures, and philosophical problems.
Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature
Examines the philosophical significance of literary form across Buddhist traditions in India, Tibet, China, Japan, Korea, and North America.
Chinese and Indian Ways of Thinking in Early Modern European Philosophy
Examines how Chinese and Indian modes of thought participated in the formation of early modern European philosophy.
Chinese Philosophy of History: From Ancient Confucianism to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Reconstructs a Chinese philosophical tradition of historical thinking from early Confucianism through late imperial thought.
Confucianism and the Philosophy of Well-Being
Develops Confucian resources for philosophical questions about well-being, virtue, relationships, and a good human life.
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Controversial Reasoning in Indian Philosophy: Major Texts and Arguments on Arthapatti
Studies classical Indian debates over postulation (arthāpatti), inference, testimony, and the structure of philosophical reasoning.
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Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought
Extends existential inquiry beyond Europe by drawing on East Asian philosophies and practices to rethink meaning, mortality, uncertainty, cultivation, ritual, and the possibility of transforming shared conditions of life.
Cross-Tradition Engagement in Philosophy: A Constructive Engagement Account
Presents a systematic account of constructive philosophical engagement across traditions.
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Daoist Encounters with Phenomenology: Thinking Interculturally about Human Existence
Brings Daoist thought into dialogue with phenomenological and continental philosophers, using questions of experience, art, ethics, death, dreams, and hermeneutics to develop a sustained intercultural philosophical conversation.
Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy: A New Way of Thinking about Art, Freedom, and Knowledge
Introduces Daya Krishna’s major philosophical projects and his distinctive rethinking of classical sources, dialogue, freedom, art, and knowledge.
Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy: Points of View in Buddhist, Jaina, and Advaita Vedānta Traditions
Examines dialogue, doxography, and philosophical disagreement across Buddhist, Jaina, and Advaita Vedānta traditions in India.
Differences in Identity in Philosophy and Religion: A Cross-Cultural Approach
Examines how difference and alterity contribute to the formation of identity across philosophical and religious traditions, including Chinese and Japanese philosophy, Confucianism, Zen Buddhism, European thought, and Islamic traditions.
Fiction and Philosophy in the Zhuangzi: An Introduction to Early Chinese Taoist Thought
Reads the Zhuangzi’s stories and literary techniques as vehicles for distinctive philosophical insights.
Flowers Blooming on a Withered Tree: Giun’s Verse Comments on Dōgen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
Translates and interprets Giun’s verse comments on Dōgen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye, illuminating medieval Sōtō Zen interpretation and the reception of Dōgen.
The Gongsun Longzi and Other Neglected Texts: Aligning Philosophical and Philological Perspectives
Combines philosophical and philological approaches to the Gongsun Longzi and related early Chinese texts.
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History of Chinese Philosophy Through Its Key Terms
Presents the development of Chinese philosophy through a history of its central concepts and key terms.
Horizons of Difference: Engaging with Others
Explores dialogue across religious, secular, political, and cultural differences while resisting fanaticism, domination, and monological forms of modernity.
How to Think about the Climate Crisis: A Philosophical Guide to Saner Ways of Living
Draws on East Asian and Western philosophy—including Confucian, Daoist, and Zen resources—to rethink climate politics, consumption, technology, and ways of living.
Human Becomings: Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics
Develops Confucian role ethics and relational personhood as an alternative to substance-based and individualist accounts of the human person.
Imagination: Cross-Cultural Philosophical Analyses
Explores imagination, illusion, narrative, images, metaphors, and allegory across East Asian, comparative, and post-comparative philosophy, with discussions ranging from Zhuangzi and Confucius to Plato, Heidegger, and Nietzsche.
Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World
Offers a normative defense and critique of different forms of social hierarchy through Chinese and comparative political philosophy.
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Michael Slote Encountering Chinese Philosophy
Stages a cross-cultural philosophical encounter between Michael Slote’s work and Chinese philosophical traditions.
The Non-Existence of the Real World
Questions whether there is a fully mind-independent “real world,” developing an anti-foundational argument that engages Madhyamaka Buddhist insights while framing the case in contemporary philosophical terms.
Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy: On Knowing What There is Not
Reconstructs Buddhist debates about nonexistence and the epistemology of knowing what is not.
The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy
A major reference work covering the historical range, schools, themes, and global significance of Japanese philosophy.
Political Life in Dark Times: A Call for Renewal
Calls for renewal of political education and ethical life through cross-cultural philosophical and religious resources, including sustained engagement with Gandhi.
The Primary Way: Philosophy of Yijing
Develops Cheng’s philosophy of the Yijing through ontological hermeneutics, cosmology, symbolic thinking, epistemology, virtue, and creative transformation.
Readings of Dōgen’s “Treasury of the True Dharma Eye”
Offers a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical introduction to Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō, examining its versions, rhetoric, East Asian Buddhist sources, contemplative dimensions, and distinctive account of awakening.
Seeing Clearly: A Buddhist Guide to Life
Presents Buddhist philosophy as a practical way of examining attachment, attention, value, and the conduct of life.
Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought
Challenges naturalistic readings of early Chinese philosophy by examining transcendence, normativity, and non-naturalist commitments.
The Way of Awareness in Daoist Philosophy
Interprets Dao primarily as awareness rather than as a mystical or cosmological entity, moving through major Daoist texts and thinkers while comparing Daoist philosophy with Western philosophy, psychology, and Buddhist thought.
Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined
Reimagines Theravāda Buddhist literature and practice as resources for thinking about learning, self-cultivation, asceticism, ethics, and human flourishing, presenting philosophy as a disciplined way of life rather than only a body of doctrine.
2019 Publications 3 titles
Classical Chinese for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners
Introduces classical Chinese language specifically to help readers engage philosophical and literary texts in the original language.
Gandhi after 9/11: Creative Nonviolence and Sustainability
Reinterprets Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence, truth, sustainability, and social transformation for the post-9/11 world.
Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation
Develops intercultural philosophies of place through questions of belonging, relation, environment, identity, and spatial experience.
2018 Publications 6 titles
Asian Philosophies, Seventh Edition
A substantially revised textbook introducing major philosophical traditions of India, China, Japan, and the Buddhist world.
Classical Yoga Philosophy and the Legacy of Sāṃkhya
Examines classical Yoga philosophy in relation to Sāṃkhya metaphysics, meditation, liberation, and the historical development of Indian philosophical systems.
Having a Word with Angus Graham: At Twenty-Five Years into His Immortality
Reassesses A. C. Graham’s lasting influence on the study and philosophical interpretation of classical Chinese thought.
Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India
Reconstructs classical Indian accounts of embodied subjectivity through phenomenological questions about self, body, agency, affect, and consciousness.
The Humanist Spirit of Daoism
Presents a modern philosophical interpretation of Daoism emphasizing humanism, freedom, creativity, and the continuing significance of Laozi and Zhuangzi.
Li Zehou and Confucian Philosophy
Examines Li Zehou’s philosophy and its relation to Confucian ethics, aesthetics, historical materialism, subjectivity, and Chinese modernity.
2017 Publications 8 titles
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy
Surveys contemporary Japanese philosophy through major figures, schools, themes, and intercultural philosophical developments.
Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order
Examines contemporary transformations of Confucian thought and its resources for global ethics, culture, governance, and relationality.
Engaging Japanese Philosophy: A Short History
A historically organized philosophical introduction to Japanese thought emphasizing recurring questions, styles of reasoning, and forms of engagement.
Nature’s Transcendence and Immanence: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Ecstatic Naturalism
Develops comparative approaches to nature, transcendence, immanence, ecology, and ecstatic naturalism across philosophical and religious traditions.
Spiritual Guides: Pathfinders in the Desert
Engages spiritual and philosophical guides from different traditions as resources for ethical life amid modern political and cultural disorientation.
Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto
Argues for a multicultural philosophical canon and for treating Chinese, Indian, African, and other traditions as integral to philosophy.
Understanding the Analects of Confucius: A New Translation of Lunyu with Annotations
A philosophical translation of the Analects with extensive annotations emphasizing Confucian cultivation, gongfu, ritual, and relational ethics.
Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp
Uses Kim Iryŏp’s Zen thought to develop Buddhist philosophical approaches to gender, selfhood, freedom, and embodied awakening.
2016 Publications 5 titles
Against Apocalypse: Recovering Humanity’s Wholeness
Responds to political, ecological, and spiritual crisis through a comparative call for wholeness, humility, and renewed ethical life.
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy Methodologies
Surveys methodological problems and approaches in Chinese philosophy, including comparison, interpretation, textual practice, and constructive philosophical engagement.
Confucian Role Ethics: A Moral Vision for the 21st Century?
Presents and debates Confucian role ethics as a contemporary moral vision grounded in relational personhood and family roles.
Confucius—The Man and the Way of Gongfu
A substantially revised presentation of Confucius centered on gongfu as the art of living, embodied cultivation, and practical transformation.
Feminist Encounters with Confucius
Brings feminist philosophy into sustained encounter with Confucian texts and traditions on gender, family, embodiment, virtue, and social roles.
2015 Publications 6 titles
Against Individualism: A Confucian Rethinking of the Foundations of Morality, Politics, Family, and Religion
Challenges liberal individualism through a Confucian role-based account of persons, morality, family, politics, and religion.
Chinese Metaphysics and Its Problems
Examines central metaphysical problems in Chinese philosophy, including being, change, relation, coherence, and the status of metaphysics itself.
Encounters of Mind: Luminosity and Personhood in Indian and Chinese Thought
Studies Buddhist theories of luminous mind and personhood as they move from Indian into Chinese philosophical contexts.
Freedom and Solidarity: Toward New Beginnings
Reconsiders freedom, solidarity, democracy, and global political life through comparative and dialogical political philosophy.
Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence
Brings philosophical traditions from Asia and elsewhere to questions of economic value, justice, interdependence, and the plurality of human values.
Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish
Uses the famous Zhuangzi dialogue about the happiness of fish to explore knowledge, language, skepticism, and comparative interpretation.
2014 Publications 7 titles
Heaven and Earth Are Not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy
Reconstructs classical Chinese responses to suffering and apparent evil without relying on a creator God or Western theodicy.
Mindfulness and Letting Be: On Engaged Thinking and Acting
Explores mindfulness, non-domination, and engaged action through comparative philosophy and religious thought.
Moral Cultivation and Confucian Character: Engaging Joel J. Kupperman
Brings Confucian ethics into conversation with Joel Kupperman on character, self-cultivation, moral psychology, and human flourishing.
Nothingness in Asian Philosophy
Examines nothingness, emptiness, and negation across Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, Hindu, Korean, and Japanese philosophical traditions.
Public Zen, Personal Zen: A Buddhist Introduction
Introduces Zen as both personal practice and a public philosophical resource for responding to contemporary social conditions.
Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy: Han to the 20th Century
An anthology of later Chinese philosophical texts from the Han dynasty through modern thought, with translations and contextual introductions.
Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun: Essays by Zen Master Kim Iryŏp
Makes the writings of Korean Zen nun Kim Iryŏp available in English, addressing selfhood, gender, practice, freedom, and awakening.
2013 Publications 2 titles
Being in the World: Dialogue and Cosmopolis
Develops a dialogical cosmopolitanism through comparative philosophy, political theory, and intercultural ethical reflection.
Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gita Commentaries
Compares Śaṅkara and Rāmānuja on selfhood, divinity, being, embodiment, and liberation through their Bhagavad Gītā commentaries.
2012 Publications 7 titles
Chinese Philosophy
Introduces Chinese philosophy through its central traditions, concepts, historical development, and characteristic approaches to experience and value.
Consciousness, Knowledge and Ignorance: Prakāśātman’s Pañcapādikāvivaraṇa, Section I
Presents and analyzes Advaita Vedānta debates about consciousness, knowledge, ignorance, and self-revelation.
Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue: Self and No-Self
Reconstructs classical Hindu-Buddhist debates about self, no-self, consciousness, and personal identity.
An Introduction to Indian Philosophy: Perspectives on Reality, Knowledge, and Freedom
Introduces Indian philosophy through problems of reality, knowledge, self, freedom, and liberation across major schools.
Return to Nature? An Ecological Counterhistory
Develops an ecological counterhistory of modernity through philosophical reflection on nature, domination, spirituality, and alternative traditions.
Valuing Diversity: Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future
Uses Buddhist philosophy to distinguish diversity from mere variety and to develop an ethics of equity, difference, and global interdependence.
Yinyang: The Way of Heaven and Earth in Chinese Thought and Culture
Reconstructs yin-yang as a dynamic philosophical model of relation, change, complementarity, and cosmology across Chinese thought.
2011 Publications 6 titles
Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary
Develops Confucian role ethics through a philosophical vocabulary of relational personhood, family, ritual, conduct, and becoming.
Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy
Introduces the major thinkers and debates of classical Chinese philosophy through argument-centered philosophical exposition.
Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook
A comprehensive sourcebook of Japanese philosophy from ancient thought through contemporary figures and movements.
Language and Reality: On an Episode in Indian Thought
A revised English translation of a study of Indian philosophy of language, ontology, and debates about the relation between words and reality.
Mahatma Gandhi
Interprets Gandhi’s life and philosophy through nonviolence, truth, religion, politics, and global ethical significance.
Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections
Explores Xu Bing’s art through Chinese aesthetics, language, culture, and comparative philosophical reflection.
2010 Publications 5 titles
Comparative Political Theory: An Introduction
Introduces comparative political theory as an intercultural philosophical practice that places political traditions from different civilizations into dialogue.
Confucius: Making the Way Great
Presents Confucius through the idea of gongfu as an art of living, cultivation, and transformative philosophical practice.
Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars
Develops an intercultural pluralism that resists both homogenizing universalism and closed cultural particularism.
Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism
Studies influential figures in modern Korean Buddhism and the philosophical, social, and institutional transformations of Korean Buddhist thought.
The Rhythm of Being: The Gifford Lectures
Presents Panikkar’s mature intercultural metaphysics of reality, relation, cosmotheandric experience, and religious pluralism.
2009 Publications 9 titles
The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth
Explores the ecological transformation of Christian thought in relation to Earth community, spirituality, and environmental responsibility.
Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung
Develops comparative political theory and cross-cultural philosophy through engagements with Asian philosophy, phenomenology, and Hwa Yol Jung’s work.
Confucian Pragmatism as the Art of Contextualizing Personal Experience and World
Develops a Confucian pragmatist account of experience, context, creativity, and world through Chinese and American philosophical dialogue.
Consequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics
Develops a systematic interpretation and philosophical defense of Buddhist ethics, especially its demanding ideal of impartial compassion.
The Essential Mengzi: Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary
A compact philosophical selection from the Mengzi paired with material from the traditional Chinese commentary tradition.
Internal Alchemy: Self, Society, and the Quest for Immortality
Examines Daoist internal alchemy as a philosophical, religious, bodily, and social practice of transformation.
Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism
Brings Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology into comparative dialogue with Buddhist philosophy, embodiment, perception, and nonduality.
Reason and Experience in Indian Philosophy
Examines the relation between reason and experience across major problems and traditions in Indian philosophy.
The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
Collects Berry’s reflections on cosmology, ecological ethics, religion, and the emergence of an Earth-centered spiritual and philosophical vision.
2008 Publications 8 titles
Buddhism and Postmodernity: Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist-Postmodern Ethics
Brings Zen and Huayan Buddhist thought into dialogue with postmodern philosophy to develop an account of Buddhist ethics.
The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence: A Philosophical Translation of the Xiaojing
A philosophical translation and interpretation of the Xiaojing centered on family reverence, relational personhood, role ethics, and Confucian moral cultivation.
Democracy as Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism in a Globalizing World
Uses Deweyan pragmatism and comparative philosophy to rethink democracy as a cultural practice under conditions of globalization.
Educations and Their Purposes: A Conversation among Cultures
Places different cultural traditions of education into philosophical conversation about learning, cultivation, citizenship, and human flourishing.
Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
A philosophical translation of the Mengzi incorporating selections from the Chinese commentary tradition.
The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century
Reassesses Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence, truth, politics, and social transformation for contemporary global problems.
Studying Hinduism: Key Concepts and Methods
Introduces central concepts and methodological debates in the study of Hindu traditions, including philosophical approaches and categories.
Yoga: India’s Philosophy of Meditation
A volume in the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies devoted to Yoga philosophy, meditation, metaphysics, and its classical textual traditions.
2007 Publications 5 titles
Civilizational Dialogue and Political Thought: Tehran Papers
Explores civilizational dialogue, comparative political thought, and alternatives to conflict across cultural and philosophical traditions.
In Search of the Good Life: A Pedagogy for Troubled Times
Develops an intercultural account of ethical and political education by drawing on philosophical and religious resources from East and West.
Indian Ethics: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges, Volume I
Surveys classical Indian ethical traditions and brings them into conversation with contemporary moral problems.
Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge: Themes in Metaphysics, Ethics and Soteriology
Examines knowledge, metaphysics, ethics, and liberation across classical Indian philosophical traditions.
Virtue Ethics and Consequentialism in Early Chinese Philosophy
Offers a systematic interpretation of early Confucian ethics through contemporary debates about virtue ethics and consequentialism.
2006 Publications 9 titles
Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Reorienting Global Interdependence
Uses Buddhist philosophy to rethink globalization, interdependence, democracy, diversity, and the ethical shape of public life.
Buddhisms and Deconstructions: New Frameworks for Continental Philosophy
Brings Buddhist traditions into dialogue with deconstruction and continental philosophy, with essays on ethics, emptiness, language, subjectivity, and comparative philosophical method.
Comparative Philosophy and Religion in Times of Terror
Uses comparative philosophy and religion to address violence, terrorism, global conflict, Gandhi, and possibilities for cross-cultural understanding.
Confucian Cultures of Authority
Examines authority in Confucian traditions through relational personhood, family, education, ritual, ethics, and political culture.
Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, Volume XI: Advaita Vedānta from 800 to 1200
A reference volume surveying major Advaita Vedānta philosophers and arguments from the ninth through twelfth centuries.
Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community
Collects Berry’s ecological reflections on Earth community, cosmology, spirituality, and the ethical transformation demanded by environmental crisis.
The Experience of God: Icons of the Mystery
Develops an intercultural philosophy of religious experience, divine mystery, symbolism, and the limits of conceptual theology.
Introduction to Asian Philosophy
A broad introduction to philosophical traditions of India, China, and Japan designed to treat Asian philosophies as philosophy rather than merely intellectual history.
Religions of India: A User Friendly and Brief Introduction to Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and the Jains
Introduces India’s major religious traditions with attention to their philosophical ideas, texts, histories, and practices.
2005 Publications 5 titles
Challenging Citizenship: Group Membership and Cultural Identity in a Global Age
Examines citizenship, cultural identity, group membership, and political belonging from comparative and global philosophical perspectives.
Eastern Philosophy
Introduces major South and East Asian philosophical traditions, figures, and concepts for a general philosophical readership.
Human Nature, Ritual, and History: Studies in Xunzi and Chinese Philosophy
Collects major studies of Xunzi, ritual, human nature, ethical reasoning, and historical consciousness in classical Chinese philosophy.
Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, Second Edition
A revised anthology of major classical Chinese philosophical texts in translation, spanning Confucian, Daoist, Mohist, and related traditions.
Small Wonder: Global Power and Its Discontents
Critiques global power and domination through comparative political philosophy and dialogical alternatives to hegemonic modernity.
2004 Publications 9 titles
Chan Buddhism
Introduces Chan Buddhism through its historical development, philosophical commitments, practices, and distinctive understanding of awakening.
Chinese Philosophy in an Era of Globalization
Brings Chinese philosophical traditions into conversation with globalization, modernity, ethics, and comparative philosophical methodology.
Christophany: The Fullness of Man
Develops Panikkar’s intercultural and interreligious philosophical theology through a nondual account of Christ, humanity, and reality.
Confucian Democracy: A Deweyan Reconstruction
Constructively reconstructs Confucianism through John Dewey’s pragmatism to develop a relational, participatory model of democracy beyond standard liberal individualism.
The Essential Vedanta: A New Source Book of Advaita Vedanta
A revised sourcebook of Advaita Vedānta bringing together translations and interpretive materials on nondual Indian philosophy.
The Hindu World
A large interdisciplinary reference volume on Hindu traditions that includes substantial attention to philosophical texts, concepts, schools, and practices.
Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light
Reconstructs Leibniz’s philosophical engagement with China and shows how Chinese thought informed his metaphysics, theology, and theories of cultural exchange.
Shinto: The Way Home
Interprets Shinto philosophically through themes of belonging, intimacy, place, ritual, and Japanese religious experience.
The Veil of Māyā: Schopenhauer’s System and Early Indian Thought
Examines Schopenhauer’s encounter with early Indian philosophy and the role of māyā in the development of his epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics.
