New Confucian Horizons: Essays in Honor of Tu Weiming represents both a sustained reflection on Tu Weiming’s legacy from those who have worked with him and an original contribution to the field of intercultural dialogue that Tu himself spent a lifetime cultivating. The importance of Sino-American intellectual relations in an era of mounting geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China scarcely requires explanation. Tu Weiming’s work has significantly deepened Sino-American cultural relations and continues to provide a vital antidote to those who would sow division between the two worlds. This book deals with Confucianism and New Confucianism and Tu Weiming’s contribution to both of these Chinese philosophical traditions, studies how Confucianism has been received, especially in Asia, and considers Confucianism in connection with contemporary challenges. Those new to Tu Weiming will sense by the end of the volume just how vast his influence as a teacher, scholar and public intellectual has been. Those more familiar with Tu’s work will uncover lacunae in their understanding of his legacy and new angles from which to savour the value of Confucian intellectual resources.
Introduction Part I: Tu Weiming: A Confucian Life Chapter 1: The Confucian Helicopter: An Overview of Tu Weiming’s (Myriad) Affiliations and Innovations Wang Jianbao Chapter 2: Tu Weiming: In Lieu of an Intellectual Biography Jonathan Keir Chapter 3: Tu Weiming and Boston Confucianism Robert C. Neville Part II: Confucianism in Theory and Practice Chapter 4: Confucianism and Democracy: Lessons from Tu Weiming Fred Dallmayr Chapter 5: Confucianism as a Religious Tradition: Linguistic and Methodological Problems Joseph A. Adler Chapter 6: As-If-Ism: A Confucian Model of Spirituality Peimin Ni Chapter 7: Reflections on Confucianism and Culture Peter K. Bol Part III: Historical Voyages Chapter 8: Confucianism and Its Reception by Alexandre de Rhodes in Seventeenth-Century Vietnam Peter C. Phan Chapter 9: From Debate to Dialogue: Confucianism and Religious Pluralism in the Context of Christian-Confucian Relations Anh Q. Tran Chapter 10: Second Thoughts about Confucianism in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945 Samuel H. Yamashita Chapter 11: D. T. Suzuki's Impressions of Chinese Buddhism (1934) as His Spiritual Journey Michiko Yusa Part IV: Future Challenges Chapter 12: Confucian Cosmology and the Journey of the Universe Mary Evelyn Tucker Chapter 13: Advancing Humanity: Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, Confucianism, and Theo-Dao Heup Young Kim Chapter 14: Envisioning a New Humanity: Tu Weiming and Raimon Panikkar Young-chan Ro About the Contributors
Young-chan Ro is professor and founding chair of the Department of Religious Studies and the Director of the Korean Studies Center at George Mason University. Jonathan Keir teaches International Literatures at the University of Tübingen and serves as a program coordinator for the Karl Schlecht Foundation. Peter C. Phan is the inaugural holder of the Ignacio Ellacuría Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University.
Reviews for New Confucian Horizons: Essays in Honor of Tu Weiming
This collection of essays by leading scholars of Confucianism based outside of Asia is a celebration, and elaboration, of Tu Weiming's project of bringing Confucianism into dialogue with the world's major religions. Inspired by Tu's presentation of Confucianism as anthropocosmic spiritual humanism, these essays argue persuasively that there is much the non-Confucian world can learn from Confucianism about what it means to be moral as a human being inextricably connected with all other human beings as well as with all other entities in the universe. --Don Baker, University of British Columbia
