"In this expansive and highly original two-volume work, Jim Behuniak reformulates John Dewey's late-period "Cultural turn" and proposes that its next logical step is an "intra-Cultural philosophy" that goes beyond what is commonly known as "comparative philosophy." Each volume models itself on this new approach, arguing that early Chinese thought is poised to join forces with Dewey in meeting an urgent cultural need: namely, helping the Western tradition to correct its outdated Greek-medieval assumptions, especially where these result in pre-Darwinian inferences about the world. Relying on the latest findings in Chinese philosophy, these volumes establish "specific philosophical relationships" between Dewey's ideas and early Chinese thought for this purpose, showing how together they can assist us in getting our thinking "back in gear" with the world as it is currently known through the biological, physical, and cognitive sciences. Volume One: Dao and Nature engages Dewey with themes generally associated with "Daoism," and includes discussion of the organization of organic form, teleology, cosmology, knowledge, the body, and technology. Volume One thus works to establish "Chinese natural philosophy" as an empirical framework in which to consider the cultural-level phenomena examined in Volume Two: Dao and Culture"--.

• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Prelude
  • Dewey’s Chinese Friendships
  • Dewey and Chinese Thought
• Acknowledgments
• Part I
  • 1. John Dewey and Intra-cultural Philosophy
    • Philosophy East and West
    • Comparative Situations
    • Culture and the Comparative Philosopher
    • Experiments in Intra-cultural Philosophy
    • Connecting Strains of Culture
  • 2. Forms and Nature
    • Philosophy Out of Gear
    • Mystery and Form
    • De 德 and Directional Order
    • Habits and Dao 道-Activity
    • Form (xing 形) and Environment
  • 3. Orders and Spontaneity
    • Dewey’s Metaphysics
    • Embracing the One (baoyi 抱一)
    • 1-2-3 and the Great Continuum
    • Attaining the One (deyi 得一)
    • Forms and Types
  • 4. Rhythms and Energies
    • The Chinese Landscape
    • Forms, Rhythms, and Qi 氣
    • Types and Potentials
    • Nature and Xing 性
    • Wuwei 無為 and Observing the Small
• Part II
  • 5. Methods and Intelligence
    • Theory and Ordinary Activity
    • Method and Dao 道-Practice
    • The Virtues of Individual Method
    • Knowledge and Intelligence
    • The Man from Song
  • 6. Knowledge and Technology
    • Knowledge Wanders North
    • The Primitive Mindset
    • Knowledge and Wholeness
    • The Tool of Knowing
    • The Monopoly of Knowledge
  • 7. Bodies and Artifacts
    • Dewey’s Body-Practice
    • Animal Bodies and Rival Anthropologies
    • Language and the Human Difference
    • Imitation and Human Selfhood
    • The Great and Venerable Teacher
  • 8. Problems and Inquiry
    • Autumn Floods
    • Nature and Valuation
    • Dismissing Market Daoism
    • Intelligence and Prognostication
    • Destiny Unbound
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index