Translation of: Thinking through Confucius.

The conditions of thinking -- Learning -- Reflecting -- Realizing -- An illustration: the Book of Songs -- Personal articulation: some alternatives -- The mutuality of ritual action and signification -- The authoritative person -- An illustration: Po I and Shu Ch'i -- The primacy of aesthetic order -- The masses -- Effecting sociopolitical order -- The exemplary person: Chun Tzu -- The question of Confucius' cosmology -- T'ien and T'ien Ming -- Te -- Tao -- T'ien-jen -- Confucian cosmology as ars contextualis -- The centrality of communication -- Sage: a philological and literary analysis -- The sage and the ordering of names -- Shu: the unifying thread -- The sage as master of communication -- the failings of Confucius -- Opportunities for engagement -- Invitation to the future.