World of Thought in Ancient China

Häftad, Engelska, 1989

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Beskrivning

The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers views which stress the unity of Chinese culture.Attention is accorded to pre-Confucian texts; the evolution of early Confucianism; Mo-Tzu; the “Taoists,”; the legalists; the Ying-Yang school; and the “five classics”; as well as to intellectual issues which cut across the conventional classification of schools. The main focus is on the high cultural texts, but Mr. Schwartz also explores the question of the relationship of these texts to the vast realm of popular culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1989-03-15
Mått:156 x 235 x 32 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:514
Förlag:Harvard University Press
ISBN:9780674961913

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Benjamin I. Schwartz was Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

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The book is a lucid, accurate, agreeably written and comprehensive survey, based on a long familiarity with the whole of the literature of Chinese schools of thought down to the second century BC, and its great strength is its range of comparisons with other traditions. Chinese thought has never before been contemplated with quite this breadth of vision… Schwartz’s book deserves to stand for some time to come as the most authoritative account of ancient Chinese thought for the Westerner interested in the history of ideas.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction 1. Early Cultural Orientations: Issues and Speculations 2. Early Chou Thought: Continuity and Breakthrough 3. Confucius: The Vision of the Analects 4. Mo-tzu's Challenge 5. The Emergence of a Common Discourse: Some Key Terms 6. The Ways of Taoism 7. The Defense of the Confucian Faith: Mencius and Hsun-tzu 8. Legalism: The Behavioral Science 9. Correlative Cosmology: The "School of Yin and Yang" 10. The Five Classics Postscript Notes Selected Bibliography Glossary Index