Publication Type

Book Review

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

12-2005

Abstract

The title of this book is inspired by the Neo-Confucian scholar, Wang Yangming (1472-1529). However, the volume is not devoted solely to Wang Yangming's philosophy about the unity of knowledge and action. Wang is only one of several thinkers brought into this philosophical conversation and does not even receive the most attention (Richard Rorty has that honor). The conver- sation is interesting and occasionally illuminating, although one is not sure at the end whether it is moving toward one particular nonrepresentation theory of knowledge or whether the conversation partners who share an aversion to representational theories might disagree profoundly about what kind of nonrep- resentational theory will suffice

Discipline

Arts and Humanities

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Volume

73

Issue

4

First Page

1206

Last Page

1208

ISSN

0002-7189

ISBN

9780791453612

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy F

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