Self as Person in Asian Theory and Practice

Wimal Dissanayake is a Senior Research Fellow attached to the East-West Center in Honolulu. He is also a member of the graduate faculty of the Department of Communication at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of several books on literature, film, and communication; the editor of the East-West Film Journal; and has co-edited Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice, published by SUNY Press. Thomas P. Kasulis is Professor of Comparative Studies in the Humanities at the Ohio State University. He has been the Numata Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago, a Japan Foundation Fellow at Osaka University, and a Mellon Faculty Fellow at Harvard. He has also served as the president of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. He is the editor and co-translator of The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory and co-editor of Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice, both published by SUNY Press.

Roger T. Ames is Professor of Chinese Philosophy at the University of Hawaii. He edits the journal, Philosophy East and West. He is also the editor of Thinking Through Confucius; Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy (with J. Baird Callicott); and Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice (with T. Kasulis and Wimal Dissanayake), all published by SUNY Press.

• IntroductionRoger T. AmesPart One: A Basis for Engagement Introduction to Part OneRoger T. Ames1. Recapturing Personal IdentityRobert C. Solomon2. The Coordination of the Self and the PassionsAmélie Oksenberg Rorty3. Rousseau, Hakuseki, and Hakuin: Paradigms of Self in Three AutobiographersJohn C. MaraldoPart Two: Person in Japanese Theory and Practice Introduction to Part TwoThomas P. Kasulis4. Researching the Strata of the Japanese SelfThomas P. Kasulis5. Migawari: The Cultural Idiom of Self-Other Exchange in JapanTakie Sugiyama Lebra6. Spiritual Quests of Twentieth-Century Women: A Theory of Self-Discovery and a Japanese Case StudyDiane B. Obenchain Part Three: Person in Chinese Theory and Practice Introduction to Part ThreeRoger T. Ames7. Embodying the Universe: A Note on Confucian Self-RealizationTu Wei-ming8. The Focus-Field Self in Classical ConfucianismRoger T. Ames9. To Be or Not to Be: The Postmodern Self and the Wu-Forms of TaoismDavid L. Hall10. Self and Collectivity: Socialization in Chinese PreschoolsDavid Y. H. Wu11. Beyond the Patrilineal Self: Constructing Gender in ChinaMargery Wolf Part Four: Person in Indian Theory and Practice Introduction to Part FourWimal Dissanayake12. The Perception of Self in Indian TraditionBimal Krishna Matilal13. Emotion Profiles: The Self and the Emotion of PridePadmasiri de Silva14. Conceptualizing the Person: Hierarchical Society and Individual Autonomy in IndiaMattison Mines15 Self, Identity, and Creativity: Women Writers in IndiaYamuna Kachru16. Selves in Motion: An Indian-Japanese ComparisonAlan RolandContributorsIndex