Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. What Is It to Enter (a Way of Thought)? 1
5. 2. The Elsewhere of China 6
6. 3. Thinking Before or Beside? 12
7. 4. The First Sentence 19
8. 5. A First Chinese Sentence 24
9. 6. Commentary 31
10. 7. Hebraic Entry 39
11. 8. Hellenic Entry 51
12. 9. Undoing Our Alternatives 65
13. 10. Where Would the Beginning Begin? 74
14. 11. Neither God nor Myth: What Other Possibility? 80
15. 12. When Myth Holds No Interest, When God Holds No Monopoly 86
16. 13. Greek Tool / Chinese Formulation 92
17. 14. Translation 104
18. 15. Is There Still “Tradition”? 113
19. Finale: A Shift of the Truth 122
20. Reference Note 133