A Wandering Dance through the Philosophy of Graham Parkes

David Jones is Professor of Philosophy at Kennesaw State University and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai‘i Hilo, USA. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Comparative and Continental Philosophy.

Introduction
Once Upon a Signature Event, David Jones (University of Hawai'i at Hilo, USA)

Part I. The First Dance
1. The Wandering Dance: Zhuangzi and Zarathustra, Graham Parkes (University of Vienna, Austria)

Part II. The Aesthetic Dance
2. Graham Parkes, Musical Ecologies, and the Daoist Dance, Roger T. Ames (Peking University, China)
3. On the Chariot of Earth, Meilin Chinn (Santa Clara University, USA)
4. The Role of Aesthetics in Nietzsche’s Philosophy and Japanese Culture, Yuriko Saito (Rhode Island School of Design, USA)
5. Heidegger’s Evasion of Music, Kathleen Higgins (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
6. Improvising with Soul: Philosophizing in an Interpretative Key, Peter D. Hershock (East-West Center, USA)
7. Image Thinking: Cinematographic Flâneurs and Twenty-First Century Philosophy, Andrew K. Whitehead (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Part III. The Practice of Dance
8. Rubble and the Philosopher’s Stone: The Practice of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Practice, Jason M. Wirth (Seattle University, USA)
9. Philosophy as Petromania: Graham Parkes, Jane Bennett, and the (Not So) New Materialisms, Leah Kalmanson (University of North Texas, USA)
10. A Mind Possessed: The Rhythmic Body and Entraining the Social Mind, Bradley Douglas Park (St. Mary’s College, USA)

Part IV. Saving the Last Dance
11. Staying True to the Earth in Zarathustra, Zhuangzi, and Zen, Timothy J. Freeman (University of Hawai'i at Hilo, USA)
12. Down and Upbeats in the Meters of Nietzsche, Zhuangzi, and Parkes, David Jones (University of Hawai'i at Hilo, USA)

Part V. Keeping on Dancing
13. Gratitude of a Wondering Wanderer, Graham Parkes (University of Vienna, Austria)

Notes on Contributors
Index