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Join us for the Symposium lecture by Bryan W. Van Norden, who is author, editor, or translator of ten books on Chinese and comparative philosophy.

Abstract
Confucius visited the state of Wei when it was in a political crisis. He was asked?what the first step should be in resolving the crisis, and gave the surprising?answer: “It would, of course, be the rectification of names” (Analects 13.3). In?this talk, I discuss the dramatic setting of this passage, its likely date of?composition, and the history of its interpretations. This last topic illuminates Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thesis that interpreters inevitably bring presuppositions?to the text, but that these presuppositions can be either enabling or disabling in?the project of achieving genuine understanding.

Speaker Bio
Bryan W. Van Norden is James Monroe Taylor Chair in Philosophy at Vassar?College (USA), and Chair Professor in the School of Philosophy at Wuhan?University (China).?A recipient of Fulbright, National Endowment for the?Humanities, and Mellon fellowships, Van Norden has been? honored as one?of?The Best 300 Professors?in the US by The Princeton Review. Van Norden is?author, editor, or translator of ten books on Chinese and comparative philosophy,?including?Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy?(2011),?Taking Back?Philosophy: A?Multicultural?Manifesto?(2017),?Readings in Later Chinese?Philosophy: ?Han to the 20th Century?(2014, with Justin Tiwald),?Readings in?Classical Chinese Philosophy?(2nd ed., 2005,?with P.J. Ivanhoe), and most?recently?Classical Chinese for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners?(2019).??He has also?published multiple op-eds in the New York Times, and?written a Ted-Ed video on Confucius that has been viewed over half a million?times. Many of his books and articles have been translated into Arabic, Chinese,?Danish, Farsi, German, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish.