Roger T. Ames ( born Roger T. Ames ; born 1947 ) is an American Sinologist , historian of philosophy, and translator. Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii . Editor-in-chief of the international journal of comparative philosophy , Philosophy East and West (since 1986).
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Editor of China Review International (since 1992). Co-editor of Philosophy St. Petersburg Journal of Oriental Studies (since 1992). The author of many studies and translations of Chinese classics. He put forward the original interpretation of the Confucian model of personality, calling it “personality as a focus and a field” (the so-called “focus-field” model). A number of his studies have been translated into Russian and Chinese.
Marked by Regent's Medal for Excellence in Research, University of Hawaii (2012).
Compositions
- Confucian Cultures of Authority edited with Peter Hershock (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006).
- Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millennium ed. with Peter Hershock and Marietta Stepaniants (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003).
- Two Lectures in Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western Culture. Program for Research of Intellectual-Cultural History, College of Humanities and Social Sci-ence, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), 1999.
- The Confucian Analects: A Philosophical Translation based on the Dingzhou Manuscripts with Henry Rosemont, Jr. (New York: Ballantine [an imprint of Random House], 1998).
- Tracing Dao to its Source with DC Lau (New York: Ballantine [an imprint of Random House] 1998).
- Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi ed. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998).
- Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chineseand Western Culture with David L. Hall (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998). Chinese language translation as Han zhexuesi-wei de wenhua tanyuan 漢 哲學 思維 的 文化 探源 by Shi Zhonglian 施 忠 連 (Nanjing: Jiangsu Peoples' Press, 1999).
- Self as Image in Asian Theory and Practice ed. with Thomas P. Kasulis and Wimal Dissanayake (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998).
- Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare with DC Lau (New York: Ballantine [an imprint of Random House], 1996). Reprinted as Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2002). Sun Pin: A Arte Da Guerra with DC Lau. Portuguese translation of Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare by Cristina Bazan (Rio De Janeiro: Editora Record, 1999).
- Self and Deception: A Cross-Cultural Philosophical Inquiry ed. with Wimal Dissanayake (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996).
- Emotions in Asian Thought: A Dialogue in Comparative Philosophy ed. with Joel Marks (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1994).
- Self as Person in Asian Theory and Practice ed. with Thomas P. Kasulis and Wimal Dissanayake (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1994).
- Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare (New York: Del Ray [an imprint of Random House], 1993). Sun-tzu: De kunst van het oorlogvoeren (Utrecht: Kosmos-Z & K Uitgevers, 1994).
- Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice ed. with Thomas P. Kasulis and Wimal Dissanayake (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1993).
- Interpreting Culture Through Translation: A Festschrift for DC Lau ed. with Chan Sin-wai and Ng Mau-sang (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1991).
- Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought: Essays in Environmental Philosophy ed. with J. Baird Callicott (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1989.
- Thinking Through Confucius with David L. Hall (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1987). Chinese language translations as Kongzi zhexue siwei 孔子 哲學 思 微 by Jiang Yiwei 將 弋 為 and Li Zhilin 李志林, (Nanjing: Jiangsu Peoples Press, 1996), and as Tongguo Kongzi er si 通過 孔子 而 思 by He Jinli 何金俐 (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2005).
- The Art of Rulership: A Study in Ancient Chinese Politi-cal Thought University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1983. Reprinted with a forward by Hal Roth (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1994). Chinese language translation as Zhushu: Zhongguo gudai zhengzhi yishu zhi yanjiu 主 術: 中國 古代 政治 藝術 之 研究 by Teng Fu 騰 復 (Beijing: Beijing University Press, 1995).
- Lao Tzu: Text, Notes and Comments translated and adapted by Rhett Young and Roger T. Ames from a popular edition by Chen Guying 陳 鼓 應, Chinese Materials Center, Inc., San Francisco, 1977, second printing (hardback and paper), 1981.
- "Death as Transformation in Classical Daoism" in Death and Philosophy, ed. Jeff Malpas and Robert C. Solomon (London and New York: Routledge, 1998).
- "Taoism and the Androgynous Ideal", in Women in China, ed. Richard W. Guisso and Stanley Johannesen, Philo Press, Youngstown, 1981. (pp. 21 46).
- Chinese Rationality: an Oxymoron? // Rationalist tradition and modernity. China. - M .: Science. Publishing company "Oriental literature", 1993. - S. 178-205.
- An individual in classical Confucianism (“focus-field” model) // God-man-society in the traditional cultures of the East. Repl. ed. M.T. Stepanyants. M., 1993. S. 39-65.
- Studies of Chinese philosophy in America // Philosophical sciences. 1997. No. 2. S. 542-544.
- Methodological approaches to comparative research: directions of research of Chinese philosophy in America // Comparative Philosophy. M .: Publishing company "Oriental literature" RAS, 2000.- S. 137-145. ISBN 5-02-018111-0
- The dialogue between Confucianism and pragmatism by J. Dewey // Comparative Philosophy: Moral Philosophy in the Context of Cultural Diversity. M., 2004. P.86-104.
- Roger T. Ames, The Daodejing and Correlative Cosmology: An Interpretive Context. Chinese translation published in Seeking Truth (2003) No. 2, pp. 5-12.
- Roger T. Ames, Death as Transformation in Classical Daoism. Chinese translation published in Journal of the History of Chinese Philosophy (2004): 3. August 2004.
- Roger T. Ames, Confucianism and Deweyan Pragmatism: A Dialogue. Chinese translation published in Globalization and Dialogue among Civilizations, Harvard-Yenching Academic Series, No.4, 2004.
Literature
- Feoktistov V.F. Personality model in traditional Chinese philosophy: discussion in Western sinology // East-Russia-West: Historical and cultural studies. M., 2001. S. 413-421. also Feoktistov V.F. // Philosophical treatises of Syun-tzu. M., 2005. S.397-402.