Bibliography

Sources

Selected works on which this atlas draws, organized by thinker. The list is not complete; it covers the works referenced by name across the concept pages, thinker pages, disputes, and readings. Bibliographic information is provided as factual reference.

Jump to: classical · Kyoto School · modern Chinese · comparative · secondary & reference

Classical sources (in modern critical editions / translations)

• — The Analects of Confucius. Numerous translations; benchmarks in English include those by D. C. Lau (Penguin), Edward Slingerland (Hackett), Roger Ames & Henry Rosemont (Ballantine).
• — Mencius. Translations by D. C. Lau (Penguin), Bryan Van Norden (Hackett); Chinese critical text widely available.
• — Daodejing (Laozi). Many translations; D. C. Lau (Penguin), Philip Ivanhoe (Hackett), Robert Henricks (Ballantine, with Mawangdui texts).
• — Zhuangzi. Burton Watson (Columbia), A. C. Graham (Hackett — Chuang-Tzŭ: The Inner Chapters, 1981/2001), Brook Ziporyn (Hackett, 2009).
• — Plato — Republic, Phaedo, Sophist, Timaeus. Critical text in Burnet's Oxford edition; standard English translations in Plato: Complete Works, ed. John M. Cooper (Hackett, 1997).
• — Aristotle — Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, De Anima. The Revised Oxford Translation, ed. Jonathan Barnes (Princeton, 1984), is the standard reference.

Kyoto School and Japanese sources

• 1911 Nishida Kitarō, An Inquiry into the Good. Trans. Masao Abe and Christopher Ives. Yale University Press, 1992.
• 1926+ Nishida Kitarō, Place & Dialectic: Two Essays by Nishida Kitarō. Trans. John W. M. Krummel and Shigenori Nagatomo. Oxford University Press, 2011. Includes "The Logic of Place" essays in which the basho-doctrine is articulated.
• 1935 Watsuji Tetsurō, Climate and Culture (Fūdo). Trans. Geoffrey Bownas. Hokuseido, 1961.
• 1937–49 Watsuji Tetsurō, Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan. Trans. Yamamoto Seisaku and Robert Carter. SUNY Press, 1996. The principal source for aidagara.

Modern Chinese sources

• 1971 Mou Zongsan, Intellectual Intuition and Chinese Philosophy (智的直覺與中國哲學). Taipei: Commercial Press. The principal Sinophone statement of the dispute with Kant. Partial English translations exist; complete English version still pending.
• 1975 Mou Zongsan, Phenomenon and Thing-in-Itself (現象與物自身). Taipei: Student Book Co.
• 1981 Li Zehou, The Path of Beauty. Trans. Gong Lizeng. Oxford University Press, 1994.
• 1985 Tu Weiming, Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation. SUNY Press.
• 2005 Zhao Tingyang, The Tianxia System (天下体系). Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Press.
• 2011 Zhao Tingyang, All Under Heaven: The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order. Trans. Joseph Harroff. University of California Press, 2021.

Comparative philosophy and sinology

• 1934 Marcel Granet, La pensée chinoise. Paris: La Renaissance du Livre. Reprinted Albin Michel.
• 1954– Joseph Needham et al., Science and Civilisation in China. Twenty-seven volumes to date. Cambridge University Press.
• 1981 A. C. Graham, Chuang-Tzŭ: The Inner Chapters. London: Allen & Unwin / Hackett 2001.
• 1985 Benjamin I. Schwartz, The World of Thought in Ancient China. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
• 1987 David L. Hall & Roger T. Ames, Thinking Through Confucius. SUNY Press.
• 1989 A. C. Graham, Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China. La Salle, IL: Open Court.
• 1995 David L. Hall & Roger T. Ames, Anticipating China: Thinking Through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture. SUNY Press.
• 1996 Reinhard May, Heidegger's Hidden Sources: East Asian Influences on His Work. Trans. Graham Parkes. London: Routledge.
• 1997 Anne Cheng, Histoire de la pensée chinoise. Paris: Seuil.
• 1998 David L. Hall & Roger T. Ames, Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture. SUNY Press.
• 1999 Chenyang Li, The Tao Encounters the West: Explorations in Comparative Philosophy. SUNY Press.
• 2002 Jean-François Billeter, Leçons sur Tchouang-tseu. Paris: Allia.
• 2003 Edward Slingerland, Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China. Oxford University Press.
• 2003 Richard E. Nisbett, The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently — and Why. New York: Free Press.
• 2006 Jean-François Billeter, Contre François Jullien. Paris: Allia. The principal scholarly indictment of Jullien's program.
• 2014 Edward Slingerland, Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity. New York: Crown.
• 2014 Chenyang Li, The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony. London: Routledge.
• 2011 Roger T. Ames, Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.

François Jullien — primary works (chronological)

A subset of Jullien's forty-plus volumes; those referenced directly on this site.

• 1989 Procès ou Création : une introduction à la pensée des lettrés chinois. Paris: Seuil.
• 1991 Éloge de la fadeur : à partir de la pensée et de l'esthétique de la Chine. Arles: Philippe Picquier.
• 1992 La Propension des choses : pour une histoire de l'efficacité en Chine. Paris: Seuil.
• 1995 Le Détour et l'accès : stratégies du sens en Chine, en Grèce. Paris: Grasset.
• 1995 Fonder la morale : dialogue de Mencius avec un philosophe des Lumières. Paris: Grasset.
• 1996 Traité de l'efficacité. Paris: Grasset.
• 1998 Un sage est sans idée, ou l'autre de la philosophie. Paris: Seuil.
• 2001 Du Temps : éléments d'une philosophie du vivre. Paris: Grasset.
• 2003 La Grande Image n'a pas de forme. Paris: Seuil.
• 2005 Conférence sur l'efficacité. Paris: PUF.
• 2006 Si parler va sans dire : du logos et d'autres ressources. Paris: Seuil.
• 2008 De l'universel, de l'uniforme, du commun et du dialogue entre les cultures. Paris: Fayard.
• 2009 Les Transformations silencieuses. Paris: Grasset.
• 2012 L'Écart et l'entre : leçon inaugurale de la Chaire sur l'altérité. Paris: Galilée.
• 2015 De l'Être au Vivre : lexique euro-chinois de la pensée. Paris: Gallimard.
• 2016 Il n'y a pas d'identité culturelle. Paris: L'Herne.
• 2018 Ressources du christianisme : mais sans s'y soumettre. Paris: L'Herne.
• 2020 Politique de la dé-coïncidence. Paris: L'Herne.
• 2022 L'Incommensurable. Paris: L'Observatoire.

Secondary literature, reception, and reference

• 1990 Wm. Theodore de Bary & Tu Weiming (eds.), Confucianism and Human Rights. Columbia University Press, 1998.
• 2002 Stephen C. Angle, Human Rights and Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry. Cambridge University Press.
• 2007 Diogenes 54(2) — special issue: Chinese Ambiguities and François Jullien. Various authors.
• 2007 François Jullien & Thierry Marchaisse, Chemin faisant : connaître la Chine, relancer la philosophie. Réponse à Jean-François Billeter. Paris: Seuil. Jullien's reply to Billeter.
• 2014 Bryan W. Van Norden, Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy. Hackett.
• 2017 Bryan W. Van Norden, Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto. Columbia University Press.
• 2019 Yong Huang, Why Be Moral? Learning from the Neo-Confucian Cheng Brothers. SUNY Press.
• 2020 Stephen C. Angle & Justin Tiwald, Neo-Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction. Polity.

Note on the corpus

Comparative philosophy of Asian and Western thought is a large and growing field. The above is an entry point. Readers wishing to extend the bibliography will find substantial review essays in the journal Philosophy East and West (University of Hawai'i Press), in Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy (Springer), and in the multi-volume Routledge Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on Confucius, Mencius, the Daodejing, Mou Zongsan, Watsuji, and the figures profiled here.