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[ SOLD OUT ] VALMISA, M., Adapting. A Chinese Philosophy of Action. Oxford University Press, 2021. 320p. Hardback. Mercedes Valmisa's Adapting: A Chinese Philosophy of Action uses the canonical texts themselves to make her cogently argued corrective on persisting interpretive studies, studies that would begin from foundational individualism as an uncritical and yet highly problematic assumption. In this Chinese version of philosophy of action that is grounded in an irreducibly relational notion of both agency and action, everything that persons do, including the construction of their own identities, is the outcome of their relations with others. This gerundive conception of persons who are always 'adapting' and thus making affordances in their doings and undergoings gives full register to the reflexivity and interpenetration of agency, requiring as it does a sociology of efficacious action. Roger T. Ames, Professor of Chinese Philosophy, Peking University |a 10/05/2021 (Publisher's information). (New) (approx. delivery time: undeliverable) ISBN: 9780197572962