Focusing the Familiar: A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong

About the Authors

About the Authors Roger T. Ames is professor of philosophy at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and editor of the journal Philosophy East & West. His recent publications include translations of Chinese classics: Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare (1993); Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare (1996) and Tracing Dao to its Source (1997) (both with D. C. Lau); the Confucian Analects (with H. Rosemont) (1988); and Daodejing: A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation (forthcoming) (with D. L. Hall). He has also authored many interpretative studies of Chinese philosophy and culture: Thinking Through Confucius (1987); Anticipating China; Thinking through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture (1995); and Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture (1997) (all with D. L. Hall). Recently he has undertaken several projects that entail the intersection of contemporary issues and cultural understanding. His Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China (with D. L. Hall) (1999) is a product of this effort. David L. Hall is presently professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas Western College, a Bachelor of Divinity (summa cum laude) from The Chicago Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Yale University. His books include Eros and Irony: A Prelude to Philosophical Anarchism; Richard Rorty—Poet and Prophet of the New Pragmatism; and a philosophical novel entitled The Arimaspian Eye. With Roger T. Ames, Hall has published Thinking Through Confucius, Anticipating China, and Thinking from the Han. In 1999 he published with Roger Ames The Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China. His current projects include a book on American intellecual history entitled Peace in Action—America’s Broken Promise and, again in collaboration with Roger Ames, a translation and philosophical interpretation of the popular Chinese classic, the Daodejing. 167 ...