Transcendence, Immanence, and Intercultural Philosophy

Part I. The Debate: Methodological Position Statements

1. Getting Past Transcendence: Determinacy, Indeterminacy, and Emergence in Chinese Natural Cosmology
Roger T. Ames

2. Classical Chinese Thought and the Sense of Transcendence
William Franke

3. Equivocations of “Transcendence”: Responses to Roger Ames
William Franke

4. Transcendence, Immanence, and Creation: A Comparative Study of Christian and Daoist Thoughts with Special Reference to Robert Neville
Yonghua Ge

5. “Immanent Transcendence” in the Chinese Tradition: Remarks on a Chinese (and Sinological) Controversy
Karl-Heinz Pohl

6. Emptiness of Transcendence: The Inconceivable and Invisible in Chinese Buddhist Thought
Hans Rudolf Kantor

Part II. Critical Reflections on Traditions of Transcendence

7. Idiot Wisdom and the Intimate Universal: On Immanence and Transcendence in an Intercultural Perspective
William Desmond

8. Transcendent and Immanent Conceptions of Perfection in Leibniz and Hegel
Nahum Brown

9. An Exemplary Operation: Shikantaza and Articulating Practice via Deleuze
Antonia Pont

10. Future as Transcendence: On a Central Problem in Ernst Bloch’s Philosophy of Religion
Michael Eckert

11. The Fate of Transcendence in Post-secular Societies
Mario Wenning

12. Who Is Engaged in the “Complicity with Power”? On the Difficulties Sinology Has with Dissent and Transcendence
Heiner Roetz

Keywords: Philosophy, Non-Western Philosophy, Critical Theory, Philosophy of Religion