This book presents detailed discussions from leading intercultural philosophers, arguing for and against the priority of immanence in Chinese thought and the validity of Western interpretations that attempt to import conceptions of transcendence. The authors pay close attention to contemporary debates generated from critical analysis of transcendence and immanence, including discussions of apophasis, critical theory, post-secular conceptions of society, phenomenological approaches to transcendence, possible-world models, and questions of practice and application. This book aims to explore alternative conceptions of transcendence that either call the tradition in the West into question, or discover from within Western metaphysics a thoroughly dialectical way of thinking about immanence and transcendence.

Nahum Brown is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Programme at the University of Macau, China. His current research focuses on historical and contemporary philosophies of possibility, and he is also interested in alternative conceptions to the law of non-contradiction, especially in Hegel and Deleuze.

William Franke is Professor of Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University, USA, and from 2013 to 2016 Professor of Philosophy, as well as program head of Philosophy and Religious Studies, at the University of Macao, China. He is a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, a senior fellow of the International Institute for Hermeneutics, and has been Fullbright-University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology and the Study of Religions.

Preface, William Franke.- 1. Introduction, Nahum Brown.- Part I:- 2. 1. Getting Past Transcendence: Determinacy, Indeterminacy, and Emergence in Chinese Natural Cosmology, Roger T. Ames.- 3. 2.      Classical Chinese Thought and the Sense of Transcendence, William Franke.- 4. 3. Equivocations of Transcendence: Responses to Roger Ames, William Franke.- 5. 4.      Transcendence, Immanence and Creation: A Comparative Study of Christian and Daoist Thoughts with Special Reference to Robert Neville, Yonghua Ge.- 6. 5.  Immanent Transcendence in the Chinese Tradition Thoughts about a Chinese Controversy, Karl-Heinz Pohl.- 7. 6.      Emptiness of Transcendence The Inconceivable and Invisible in Chinese Buddhist Thought, Hans-Rudolf Kantor.- Part II:- 8. 7.  Idiot Wisdom and the Intimate Universal: On Immanence and Transcendence in an Intercultural Perspective, William Desmond.- 9. 8. Transcendent and Immanent Conceptions of Perfection in Leibniz and Hegel, Nahum Brown.- 10. 9. An Exemplary Operation Articulating the Practice of Shikantaza via Deleuze, Antonia Pont.- 11. 10.  Future as Transcendence: On a Central Problem in Ernst Blochs Philosophy of Religion, Michael Eckert.- 12. 11.  Postsecularism and the Fate of Transcendence, Mario Wenning.- 13. 12.  Who is Engaged in the "Complicity with Power? On the Difficulties Sinology has with Dissent and Transcendence, Heiner Roetz.