Dr. Dawid Rogacz and Dr. Selusi Ambrogio (University of Macerata, Italy) have been appointed by Bloomsbury as General Editors of the new, three-volume encyclopedia of Chinese philosophy: “Chinese Philosophy and its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present Day.” The publication (in paper and online) is planned for 2024.
The project entails close cooperation with more than sixty scholars from all over the world under the guidance of the Advisory Board consisting of the leading experts in Chinese thought: Bart Dessein, David Chai, Yong Huang, Leigh K. Jenco, Peng Guoxiang, PJana S. Rošker, Wen Haiming, and Bryan W. Van Norden.
Each volume features 20 chapters (often divided into relatively independent sections) of around 10,000 words. Expanding and challenging existing views of Chinese philosophy, this wide-ranging collection shall:
- address misrepresentations and misrecognitions of Chinese thought by approaching Chinese philosophy in terms of thinkers rather than schools of thought
- feature chapters on an unprecedented range of thinkers, including independent philosophers often neglected from traditional surveys
- cover the linguistic and rhetorical form of Chinese philosophical thought
- discuss social, political, and economic contexts and interconnections between Chinese and other East Asian traditions, and Chinese and Western traditions
- provide up-to-date coverage of early modern encounters and those from the twentieth and twenty-first century