Transcendence, Immanence, and Intercultural Philosophy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. The Debate: Methodological Position Statements

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Getting Past Transcendence: Determinacy, Indeterminacy, and Emergence in Chinese Natural Cosmology

      • Roger T. Ames

      Pages 3-33

   3. Classical Chinese Thought and the Sense of Transcendence

      • William Franke

      Pages 35-65

   4. Equivocations of “Transcendence”: Responses to Roger Ames

      • William Franke

      Pages 67-77

   5. Transcendence, Immanence, and Creation: A Comparative Study of Christian and Daoist Thoughts with Special Reference to Robert Neville

      • Yonghua Ge

      Pages 79-102

   6. “Immanent Transcendence” in the Chinese Tradition: Remarks on a Chinese (and Sinological) Controversy

      • Karl-Heinz Pohl

      Pages 103-123

   7. Emptiness of Transcendence: The Inconceivable and Invisible in Chinese Buddhist Thought

      • Hans Rudolf Kantor

      Pages 125-149

3. Critical Reflections on Traditions of Transcendence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Idiot Wisdom and the Intimate Universal: On Immanence and Transcendence in an Intercultural Perspective

      • William Desmond

      Pages 153-181

   3. Transcendent and Immanent Conceptions of Perfection in Leibniz and Hegel

      • Nahum Brown

      Pages 183-205

   4. An Exemplary Operation: Shikantaza and Articulating Practice via Deleuze

      • Antonia Pont

      Pages 207-236

   5. Future as Transcendence: On a Central Problem in Ernst Bloch’s Philosophy of Religion

      • Michael Eckert

      Pages 237-258

   6. The Fate of Transcendence in Post-secular Societies

      • Mario Wenning

      Pages 259-282

   7. Who Is Engaged in the “Complicity with Power”? On the Difficulties Sinology Has with Dissent and Transcendence

      • Heiner Roetz

      Pages 283-317

4. Back Matter

   Pages 319-327

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This book presents detailed discussions from leading intercultural philosophers, arguing for and against the priority of immanence in Chinese thought and the validity of Western interpretations that attempt to import conceptions of transcendence. The authors pay close attention to contemporary debates generated from critical analysis of transcendence and immanence, including discussions of apophasis, critical theory, post-secular conceptions of society, phenomenological approaches to transcendence, possible-world models, and questions of practice and application. This book aims to explore alternative conceptions of transcendence that either call the tradition in the West into question, or discover from within Western metaphysics a thoroughly dialectical way of thinking about immanence and transcendence.

• transcendence
• immanence
• intercultural philosophy
• philosophy
• ethics

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

  Nahum Brown

• Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

  William Franke

Nahum Brown is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Programme at the University of Macau, China. His current research focuses on historical and contemporary philosophies of possibility, and he is also interested in alternative conceptions to the law of non-contradiction, especially in Hegel and Deleuze.

William Franke is Professor of Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University, USA, and from 2013 to 2016 Professor of Philosophy, as well as program head of Philosophy and Religious Studies, at the University of Macao, China. He is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, a senior fellow of the International Institute for Hermeneutics, and has been Fullbright-University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology and the Study of Religions.

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