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Resonances of Neo-Confucianism

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  • Jun 2024

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Authors:
  1. Margus Ott

    1. Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Tallin, Estonia

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  • New ontological ideas
  • Proposes the idea of resonance as a new methodology for comparative philosophy
  • Puts Deleuze, Spinoza, Husserl, and Schopenhauer in conversation with Zhang Zai, Zhu Xi, and Wang Yangming

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy (PSCEWP)

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Keywords

  • comparative philosophy
  • Neo-Confucianism
  • resonance
  • nature (xing), feelings (qing), heart/mind (xin)
  • virtuality
  • actuality
  • counter-actualization
  • Zhu Xi
  • Zhang Zai
  • Wang Yangming
  • Gilles Deleuze
  • Baruch Spinoza
  • Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Edmund Husserl

About this book

​This book "resonates" the work of Chinese and Western philosophers, developing ontological ideas that are neither purely Chinese nor Western. In so doing, it argues that Deleuze's idea of "resonance" offers a model for a new way of doing comparative philosophy in which the comparison actualizes the virtual and counter-actualizes the actual in both compared traditions. More particularly, Neo-Confucian thinkers Zhang Zai (1020-1077), Zhu Xi (1130-1200), and Wang Yangming (1472-1529) are resonated with Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Husserlian phenomenology, and Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995). The three Chinese thinkers represent three distinct currents of Neo-Confucianism: the school of veins (li) of Zhu Xi, the school of energy (qi) of Zhang Zai, the school of mind (xin) of Wang Yangming. The method of resonance is used to discuss the following topics: dichotomy of veins and energy, temporality and subjectivity, self-cultivation, all-embracing energy, dichotomy of primary ability and primary knowledge.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Tallin, Estonia

    Margus Ott

About the author

Margus Ott received a PhD in philosophy at Tallinn University in 2014. He has an extensive publication record in Estonian, including a series of six books of philosophy, a monograph on Chinese music and divination, and a translation of Zhuangzi's "Inner Chapters".


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Resonances of Neo-Confucianism

  • Authors: Margus Ott

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56873-2Due: 06 July 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56876-3Due: 06 July 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-56874-9Due: 06 July 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2662-2378

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-2386

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 232

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

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