Hyo-Dong Lee is Assistant Professor of Comparative Theology at Drew University School of Theology.

"Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude is a fascinating and creative study in comparative philosophy and theology that achieves two major objectives with flair and insight. The first accomplishment is Lee's creation of an extended dialogue between the Western process-philosophical and theological tradition inspired by Whitehead with a series of the most innovative Korean Neo-Confucian philosophers. This is a complex and fluent work that will stimulate and intrigue comparative philosophers, theologians and students of Asian Confucianism - indeed a rare achievement on all levels of scholarly dialogical intricacy. Many scholars have sensed the compatibility of Whiteheadian process thought with Korean Neo-Confucianism, and in Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude both sides of the comparative equation are encouraged to talk intelligently and successfully to each other." -- -John Berthrong Boston University "This is a highly creative, original, powerfully expressed and deeply researched book." -- -Robert Neville Boston University "This is a very original and substantive contribution to Whiteheadian process theology, comparative theology, Neo-Confucian studies, and Asian theology, remarkable for the sheer number of sources synthesized, the thoroughness with which systematic, ontological questions are raised and analyzed, and the consistency of commitment to postmodern values with which the sources are critiqued and retrieved." -- -Anselm K. Min Claremont Graduate University "Rippling between East and West, between the energizing depths of mysticism and the democracy of the restless multitude, this text it foments an unprecedented coalescence of political and comparative theology." -- -Catherine Keller Drew University, The Theological School

• Preface Prologue: A Meeting of Two Stories Introduction: A Decolonizing Asian Theology of Spirit as a Comparative Theology of Spirit-Qi 1. The Psychophysical Energy of the Way in Daoist Thought 2. The Psychophysical Energy of the Great Ultimate: A Neo-Confucian Adventure of the Idea in Zhu Xi 3. Creativity and a Democracy of Fellow Creatures: The Challenge of Whitehead's Radical Ontological Pluralism 4. The Great Ultimate as Primordial Manyone: The Promise and Peril of Toegye's Neo-Confucian "Heterodoxy" 5. From the Divine Idea to the Concrete Unity of the Spirit: Hegel's Shapes of Freedom and the Domination of Nature 6. Pattern and Psychophysical Energy Are Equally Actual: The Empathetic Plurisingularity of the Great Ultimate in Nongmun's Thought 7. The Chaosmos and the Great Ultimate: A Neo-Confucian Trinity in Conversation with Deleuze and Keller 8. The Democracy of Numinous Spirits: The Panentheism of "Subaltern" Ultimate Energy in Donghak Epilogue: The Spirit-Qi of the Multitude under the Cross of Empire Notes Bibliography Index

Hyo-Dong Lee is Assistant Professor of Comparative Theology at Drew University School of Theology.

"Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude is a fascinating and creative study in comparative philosophy and theology that achieves two major objectives with flair and insight. The first accomplishment is Lee's creation of an extended dialogue between the Western process-philosophical and theological tradition inspired by Whitehead with a series of the most innovative Korean Neo-Confucian philosophers. This is a complex and fluent work that will stimulate and intrigue comparative philosophers, theologians and students of Asian Confucianism - indeed a rare achievement on all levels of scholarly dialogical intricacy. Many scholars have sensed the compatibility of Whiteheadian process thought with Korean Neo-Confucianism, and in Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude both sides of the comparative equation are encouraged to talk intelligently and successfully to each other." -- -John Berthrong Boston University "This is a highly creative, original, powerfully expressed and deeply researched book." -- -Robert Neville Boston University "This is a very original and substantive contribution to Whiteheadian process theology, comparative theology, Neo-Confucian studies, and Asian theology, remarkable for the sheer number of sources synthesized, the thoroughness with which systematic, ontological questions are raised and analyzed, and the consistency of commitment to postmodern values with which the sources are critiqued and retrieved." -- -Anselm K. Min Claremont Graduate University "Rippling between East and West, between the energizing depths of mysticism and the democracy of the restless multitude, this text it foments an unprecedented coalescence of political and comparative theology." -- -Catherine Keller Drew University, The Theological School

• Preface Prologue: A Meeting of Two Stories Introduction: A Decolonizing Asian Theology of Spirit as a Comparative Theology of Spirit-Qi 1. The Psychophysical Energy of the Way in Daoist Thought 2. The Psychophysical Energy of the Great Ultimate: A Neo-Confucian Adventure of the Idea in Zhu Xi 3. Creativity and a Democracy of Fellow Creatures: The Challenge of Whitehead's Radical Ontological Pluralism 4. The Great Ultimate as Primordial Manyone: The Promise and Peril of Toegye's Neo-Confucian "Heterodoxy" 5. From the Divine Idea to the Concrete Unity of the Spirit: Hegel's Shapes of Freedom and the Domination of Nature 6. Pattern and Psychophysical Energy Are Equally Actual: The Empathetic Plurisingularity of the Great Ultimate in Nongmun's Thought 7. The Chaosmos and the Great Ultimate: A Neo-Confucian Trinity in Conversation with Deleuze and Keller 8. The Democracy of Numinous Spirits: The Panentheism of "Subaltern" Ultimate Energy in Donghak Epilogue: The Spirit-Qi of the Multitude under the Cross of Empire Notes Bibliography Index

Hyo-Dong Lee is Assistant Professor of Comparative Theology at Drew University School of Theology.

"Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude is a fascinating and creative study in comparative philosophy and theology that achieves two major objectives with flair and insight. The first accomplishment is Lee's creation of an extended dialogue between the Western process-philosophical and theological tradition inspired by Whitehead with a series of the most innovative Korean Neo-Confucian philosophers. This is a complex and fluent work that will stimulate and intrigue comparative philosophers, theologians and students of Asian Confucianism - indeed a rare achievement on all levels of scholarly dialogical intricacy. Many scholars have sensed the compatibility of Whiteheadian process thought with Korean Neo-Confucianism, and in Spirit, Qi, and the Multitude both sides of the comparative equation are encouraged to talk intelligently and successfully to each other." -- -John Berthrong Boston University "This is a highly creative, original, powerfully expressed and deeply researched book." -- -Robert Neville Boston University "This is a very original and substantive contribution to Whiteheadian process theology, comparative theology, Neo-Confucian studies, and Asian theology, remarkable for the sheer number of sources synthesized, the thoroughness with which systematic, ontological questions are raised and analyzed, and the consistency of commitment to postmodern values with which the sources are critiqued and retrieved." -- -Anselm K. Min Claremont Graduate University "Rippling between East and West, between the energizing depths of mysticism and the democracy of the restless multitude, this text it foments an unprecedented coalescence of political and comparative theology." -- -Catherine Keller Drew University, The Theological School

• Preface Prologue: A Meeting of Two Stories Introduction: A Decolonizing Asian Theology of Spirit as a Comparative Theology of Spirit-Qi 1. The Psychophysical Energy of the Way in Daoist Thought 2. The Psychophysical Energy of the Great Ultimate: A Neo-Confucian Adventure of the Idea in Zhu Xi 3. Creativity and a Democracy of Fellow Creatures: The Challenge of Whitehead's Radical Ontological Pluralism 4. The Great Ultimate as Primordial Manyone: The Promise and Peril of Toegye's Neo-Confucian "Heterodoxy" 5. From the Divine Idea to the Concrete Unity of the Spirit: Hegel's Shapes of Freedom and the Domination of Nature 6. Pattern and Psychophysical Energy Are Equally Actual: The Empathetic Plurisingularity of the Great Ultimate in Nongmun's Thought 7. The Chaosmos and the Great Ultimate: A Neo-Confucian Trinity in Conversation with Deleuze and Keller 8. The Democracy of Numinous Spirits: The Panentheism of "Subaltern" Ultimate Energy in Donghak Epilogue: The Spirit-Qi of the Multitude under the Cross of Empire Notes Bibliography Index