Grange, Joseph, John Dewey, Confucius, and Global Philosophy

摘要

The discipline of comparative philosophy has come a long way since generalized studies ofn“East” and “West” began to appear during the mid-twentieth century. More recent works arenmore textually sophisticated, historically situated, and “thickly descriptive” (to use the famousnmethodological axiom of cultural anthropologist Clifford Geertz). More and more adequatencomparative categories are being generated that enable registration of genuine similarities andndifferences, that allow genuine comparisons and contrasts to be drawn, and that enable criticalnanalyses to be made across space and time. Joseph Grange’sbook John Dewey, Confucius, andnGlobal Philosophy reflects all of these virtues that characterize recent books in this genre.