Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice

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Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice

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Thomas P. Kasulis - Editor
Roger T. Ames - Editor
Wimal Dissanayake - Editor

SUNY series, The Body in Culture, History, and Religion

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Hardcover - 384 pages

Release Date: January 1993

ISBN10: 0-7914-1079-X
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-1079-0

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Paperback - 384 pages

Release Date: December 1992

ISBN10: 0-7914-1080-3
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-1080-6

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Summary

This book is an investigation of the relationship between self and body in the Indian, Japanese, and Chinese philosophical traditions. The interplay between self and body is complex and manifold, touching on issues of epistemology, ontology, social philosophy, and axiology. The authors examine these issues and make relevant connections to the Western tradition. The authors' allow the Asian traditions to shed new light on some of the traditional mind-body issues addressed in the West.

"This book provides a panoramic view of various Asian religious and cultural assumptions and practices related to the human body. In doing so, this volume moves beyond the general and now commonplace knowledge that Asian traditions resist the body/mind distinction which has been so important in the West. The authors illustrate the diversity and complexity of Asian views, and at the same time, draw attention to their underlying similarities. They thus illustrate the difficulty of distinguishing Western and Asian views in terms of simplistic dichotomies. Yet, this book does not simply describe alternative theories and practice. The strength of this book is that it analyses issues of broader philosophical import. It both contrasts and synthesizes the insights of Asian and Western assumptions. Finally, this book explores and exposes the interesting connections between theories of the human body and related practices, such as calligraphy, acupuncture, sacrifice, and meditation." -- Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, Stanford University

Thomas P. Kasulis is Professor of Comparative Studies in the Humanities at The Ohio State University. He has been the Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago, a Japan Foundation Fellow at Osaka University, and Mellon Faculty Fellow at Harvard. He has also served as the President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. He is the author of Zen Action/Zen Person, and the editor and co-translator of The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory, also published by SUNY Press. Roger T. Ames is Professor of Chinese Philosophy at the University of Hawaii and edits the journal, Philosophy East and West. He is the co-author of Thinking Through Confucius (with David L. Hall), and co-editor of Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (with J. Baird Callicott), both published by SUNY Press. Wimal Dissanayake is a research scholar in the Institute of Culture and Communication at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Roger T. Ames

PART ONE: A BASIS FOR ENGAGEMENT

Introduction to Part One
Roger T. Ames

1. Recapturing Personal Identity
Robert C. Solomon

2. The Coordination of the Self and the Passions
Amelie Oksenberg Rorty

3. Rousseau, Hakuseki, and Hakuin: Paradigns of Self in Three Autobiographers
John C. Maraldo

PART TWO: PERSON IN JAPANESE THEORY AND PRACTICE

Introduction to Part Two
Thomas P. Kasulis

4. Researching the Strata of the Japanese Self
Thomas P. Kasulis

5. Migawari: The Cultural Idiom of Self-Other Exchange in Japan
Takie Sugiyama Lebra

6. Spiritual Quests of Twentieth-Century Women: A Theory of Self-Discovery and a Japanese Case Study
Diane B. Obenchain

PART THREE: PERSON IN CHINESE THEORY AND PRACTICE

Introduction to Part Three
Roger T. Ames

7. Embodying the Universe: A Note on Confucian Self-Realization
Tu Wei-ming

8. The Focus-Field Self in Classical Confucianism
Roger T. Ames

9. To Be or Not to Be: The Postmodern Self and the Wu-Forms of Taoism
David L. Hall

10. Self and Collectivity: Socialization in Chinese Preschools
David Y. H. Wu

11. Beyond the Patrilineal Self: Constructing Gender in China
Margery Wolf

PART FOUR: PERSON IN INDIAN THEORY AND PRACTICE

Introduction to Part Four
Wimal Dissanayake

12. The Perception of Self in Indian Tradition
Bimal Krishna Matilal

13. Emotion Profiles: The Self and the Emotion of Pride
Padmasiri de Silva

14. Conceptualizing the Person: Hierarchical Society and Individual Autonomy in India
Mattison Mines

15. Self, Identity, and Creativity: Women Writers in India
Yamuna Kachru

16. Selves in Motion: An Indian-Japanese Comparison
Alan Roland

Contributors

Index

Related Subjects

Asian Religion and Philosophy
Asian Studies
Chinese Studies
Comparative Religion
India and South Asian Studies
Japanese Studies

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