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
Citation
TAN, Sor-hoon.(2005). Review of Unity of knowledge and action: Toward a nonrepresentational theory of knowledge. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 73(4), 1206-1208.
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