Having a Word with Angus Graham

This volume engages with the works and ideas of Angus Charles Graham (1919-1991), one of the most prominent Western scholars of Chinese philosophy, at the twenty-fifth anniversary of his passing. Over a professional career of more than thirty years, Angus Graham produced an impressive amount of scholarship on a wide array of topics, ranging from Chinese grammar and philology to poetry and philosophy. His combination of rigorous scholarship and philosophical originality has continued to inspire scholars to tackle related research topics, and in so doing, has required of them a response to his views. This book illustrates the range of scholarship still elaborating upon, disagreeing with, and reacting to Graham's work on Chinese thought, philosophy, philology, and translation.

Introduction: Having a Word with Angus Graham: At the First Twenty-Five Years into His Immortality Carine Defoort and Roger T. Ames 1. Reading the Zhuangzi Anthology Esther S. Klein 2. Reflections on Textual Analysis in the Post-Graham Era Liu Xiaogan 3. Cognitive Attunement in the Zhuangzi Harold D. Roth 4. Vital Matters, A.C. Graham, and the Zhuangzi Michael Nylan 5. Remarks on Intertranslatability and Relativism Henry Rosemont, Jr. 6. Getting to the Bottom of "Things" (wù ¿): Expanding on A.C. Graham's Understanding Robert H. Gassmann 7. Míng (¿) as "Names" Rather than "Words:" Disabled Bodies Speaking without Acting in Early Chinese Texts Jane Geaney 8. Unfounded and Unfollowed: Mencius' Portrayal of Yang Zhu and Mo Di Carine Defoort 9. Reconstructing A.C. Graham's Reading of Mencius on xing ¿: A Coda to "The Background of the Mencian Theory of Human Nature" (1967) Roger T. Ames 10. Reason and Spontaneity Reconsidered Lisa Raphals 11. Spontaneity and Marriage Paul Kjellberg 12. Rationalism and Anti-Rationalism in Later Mohism and Zhuangzi Chris Fraser