Craft of Oblivion

Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China

AvAlbert Galvany

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.The Craft of Oblivion is an innovative and groundbreaking volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization. Oblivion has tended to be relegated to a marginal position, often conceived as the mere destructive or undesirable opposite of memory, even though it performs an essential function in our lives. Forgetting and memory, far from being autonomous and mutually exclusive spheres, should be seen as interdependent phenomena. Drawing on perspectives from history, philosophy, literature, and religion, and examining both transmitted texts and excavated materials, the contributors to this volume analyze various ways of understanding oblivion and its complex and fertile relations with memory in ancient China.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-07-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt:621 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Antal sidor:380
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9781438493756

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Albert Galvany Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU.

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"…this book is pioneering in its research on the theme of oblivion." — Religious Studies Review"The papers in this volume examine memory—and forgetting—from an impressive variety of perspectives. In their different approaches and the sources they engage, the authors bring a new richness to the study of memory in premodern China. They show us that a sophisticated regarding of the past is not only the province of the modern but existed since antiquity in ways that can still surprise us." — Charles Sanft, author of Literate Community in Early Imperial China: The Northwestern Frontier in Han Times

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAlbert GalvanyPART I. HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AND POLITICAL NARRATIVES 1. Cultural Amnesia and Commentarial Retrofitting: Interpreting the Spring and AutumnNewell Ann Van Auken2. Elision and Narration: Remembering and Forgetting in Some Recently Unearthed Historiographical ManuscriptsRens Krijgsman3. Shaping the Historian's Project: Language of Forgetting and Obliteration in the ShijiEsther Sunkyung Klein4. The Ice of Memory and the Fires of Forgetfulness: Traumatic Recollections in the Wu Yue ChunqiuOlivia MilburnPART II. PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS 5. The Daode jing's Forgotten Forebear: The Ancestral CultK. E. Brashier6. So Comfortable You'll Forget You're Wearing Them: Attention and Forgetting in the Zhuangzi and HuainanziFranklin Perkins7. The Practice of Erasing Traces in the HuainanziTobias Benedikt Zürn8. The Oblivious against the Doctor: Pathologies of Remembering and Virtues of Forgetting in the Liezi Albert Galvany9. Wang Bi and the Hermeneutics of ActualizationMercedes ValmisaPART III. RITUAL AND LITERARY TEXTS 10. Embodied Memory and Natural Forgetting in Early Chinese Ritual TheoryPaul Nicholas Vogt11. Exile and Return: Oblivion, Memory, and Nontragic Death in Tomb-Quelling Texts from the Eastern Han DynastyXiang Li12. Lost in Where We Are: Tao Yuanming on the Joys of Forgetting and the Worries of Being ForgottenMichael D. K. IngContributorsIndex