Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture
David L. Hallis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is the author ofThe Civilization of Experience: A Whiteheadian Theory of Culture; The Uncertain Phoenix: Adventures Toward a Post-Cultural Sensibility;andEros and Irony: A Prelude to Philosophical Anarchism.With SUNY Press, Professor Hall is coauthor ofThinking Through Confucius(with Roger T. Ames); andAnticipating China(with Roger T. Ames); author ofThe Arimaspian EyeandRichard Rorty: Prophet and Poet of the New Pragmatism.Roger T. Amesis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii and editor ofPhilosophy East and West.He is the author ofThe Art of Rulership: A Study in Ancient Chinese Political Thoughtand coeditor ofNature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy(with J. Baird Callicott); Self and Deception: A Cross-Cultural Philosophical Enquiry(with Wimal Dissanayake); Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice;andSelf as Person in Asian Theory and Practice(both with Wimal Dissanayake and Thomas Kasulis),all published by SUNY Press. He is also the translator ofSun-tzu: The Art of Warfare; andSun Pin: The Art of Warfare(with D. C. Lau).