Enjoy a preview of our interview with Dr. Bryan Van Norden, James Monroe Taylor Chair in Philosophy at Vassar College (USA), and Chair Professor in the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University (China). Van Norden has published 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), Classical Chinese for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners (2019), and most recently the third edition of Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2023, with P.J. Ivanhoe). Van Norden’s video lecture series on Chinese philosophy is freely available online, as is a Ted-Ed video on Confucius he wrote, which has over a million views. A recent video talk he gave, “The Rest Knows the West Better than the West Knows the Rest,” summarizes his concerns and suggestions for multicultural philosophy.
The full interview can be found on our Spotify and YouTube at the following links: (to be posted)