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The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things - (World Philosophies) by Yang Guorong (Paperback)

The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things - (World Philosophies) by  Yang Guorong (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This first English translation introduces current, influential work from China to readers worldwide.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Yang Guorong is one of the most prominent Chinese philosophers working today and is best known for using the full range of Chinese philosophical resources in connection with the thought of Kant, Hegel, Marx, and Heidegger. In <i>The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things</i>, Yang grapples with the philosophical problem of how the complexly interwoven nature of things and being relates to human nature, values, affairs, and facts, and ultimately creates a world of meaning. Yang outlines how humans might live more fully integrated lives on philosophical, religious, cultural, aesthetic, and material planes. This first English translation introduces current, influential work from China to readers worldwide.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>[F]or students of Chinese religions and philosophies [this] book will prove to be an exclusive and valuable experience in encountering the vast repository of the multifarious resources of the Chinese intellectual heritage.</p>-- "Religious Studies Review"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Yang Guorong is Zijiang University Professor at East China Normal University in Shanghai and a leading figure in Chinese philosophy. He has published ten books on classical Confucianism, neo-confucianism, Daoism, modern Chinese thought, and Chinese and Western philosophy.</p><p>Chad Austin Meyers is a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese philosophy at East China Normal University. He has published An Outline of a Concrete Metaphysics and Yang Guorong's Concrete Metaphysics in <i>Contemporary Chinese Thought</i>.</p>

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