Gongsheng Across Contexts A Philosophy of Co-Becoming

“This excellent collection of essays explores the notion of gongsheng/kyōsei as a conceptual ground for developing novel pathways in our age of crisis. It shows how cutting-edge contributions from contemporary Chinese and Japanese philosophy offer accounts of deep relationality that allow us to thin...

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Other Authors: Song, Bing (Editor), Zhan, Yiwen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Palgrave Macmillan 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Introduction
  • Chapter 1: What Intellectual Shift Do We Need in a Time of Planetary Risks? Inspirations from Symbiosis in Life Sciences and the Notion of Gongsheng/Kyōsei
  • Chapter 2: The Re-engineering of Gongsheng: On the Methodology of this Volume and its Philosophical Implications
  • Part II: Gongsheng/Kyōsei in Classical Philosophies
  • Chapter 3: Introduction on the Ethical “Doctrine of Gongsheng” based on Song-Ming Confucianism’s “Unity of Consummate Persons and Things”
  • Chapter 4: The Concept of Gongsheng in Daoist Philosophy: Examples from Laozi and Zhuangzi
  • Chapter 5: “If Humans are Free of Disease, then Tian is Free of Disease” – Ecological Civilization and the Daoist Concept of Gongsheng
  • Chapter 6: Co-dependent Origination and the Doctrine of Gongsheng: A Buddhist Perspective on The Harmony of Humanity, Nature, and Civilizations
  • Chapter 7: The Gap of Wen and the Edge of Chaos: From the Conundrum of Kyōsei to the “Cosmic Hope”
  • Part III: Gongsheng in Contemporary Contexts
  • Chapter 8: How to Understand Symbiosis? – The Conflict and Integration of Two Pictures of Life
  • Chapter 9: The Microbiome is Redefining What it Means to be Human
  • Chapter 10: Gongsheng in Ecological Anthropology
  • Chapter 11: Yaoshi Tongyuan: The Symbiotic Practice in Traditional Medicines
  • Chapter 12: The Gongsheng School of International Relations: China's Experience
  • Part IV: Resonance
  • Chapter 13: Origins and Theoretical Foundations of Convivialism
  • Chapter 14: Ontology, Conviviality and Symbiosis or: Are there Gifts of Nature?