Paolo Santangelo – författare

This book reflects on the representation of the self in late imperial China, prior to the influence of Western philosophical paradigms.Examining how early modern Chinese literati and intellectuals conceived of selfhood, with particular attention to emotions, desires, moral sentiments, passions, and the embodied experience of sensory feelings, the book adopts a comparative perspective, engaging directly with Chinese sources while drawing cross-cultural parallels with debates among modern Western thinkers such as Spinoza and Nietzsche. Two key concepts anchor the analysis: the affective world-emotions and dispositions (qing)-and authenticity (zhen), which underpinned what some scholars have termed the "e;cult of qing."e; The study explores how these ideas reshaped notions of the self, revealing tensions between natural impulses and moral cultivation.Engaging with both Chinese sources and modern Western thinkers, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Intellectual history, Chinese history and culture, and History of ideas.

This book reflects on the representation of the self in late imperial China, prior to the influence of Western philosophical paradigms.Examining how early modern Chinese literati and intellectuals conceived of selfhood, with particular attention to emotions, desires, moral sentiments, passions, and the embodied experience of sensory feelings, the book adopts a comparative perspective, engaging directly with Chinese sources while drawing cross-cultural parallels with debates among modern Western thinkers such as Spinoza and Nietzsche. Two key concepts anchor the analysis: the affective world-emotions and dispositions (qing)-and authenticity (zhen), which underpinned what some scholars have termed the "e;cult of qing."e; The study explores how these ideas reshaped notions of the self, revealing tensions between natural impulses and moral cultivation.Engaging with both Chinese sources and modern Western thinkers, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Intellectual history, Chinese history and culture, and History of ideas.

This book reflects on the representation of the self in late imperial China, prior to the influence of Western philosophical paradigms.Examining how early modern Chinese literati and intellectuals conceived of selfhood, with particular attention to emotions, desires, moral sentiments, passions, and the embodied experience of sensory feelings, the book adopts a comparative perspective, engaging directly with Chinese sources while drawing cross-cultural parallels with debates among modern Western thinkers such as Spinoza and Nietzsche. Two key concepts anchor the analysis: the affective world—emotions and dispositions (qing)—and authenticity (zhen), which underpinned what some scholars have termed the “cult of qing.” The study explores how these ideas reshaped notions of the self, revealing tensions between natural impulses and moral cultivation.Engaging with both Chinese sources and modern Western thinkers, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Intellectual history, Chinese history and culture, and History of ideas.

How was the concept of 'personality' perceived in (late-imperial) China? Re-constructing the main features describing the individual, this volume, firmly based in textual sources, is a reflection on personality and its attributes in China. It discusses terms that express the propensity, inclinations, predispositions, and temperament of subjects, departing from the descriptions that represent one’s and the other’s self, as well as terms that describe or label a person's main qualities or defects. As judgments contribute to formulate the image of ourselves and others, when talking of personality not only individual characters (biological traits, cultural basis, innate and acquired traits and habits) are looked into, but also social values and collective mentality, as well as individual and group subjectivity.

Mountain Songs is a collection of folk songs edited by the famous writer Feng Menglong (1574-1646). By this innovative work - mainly written in the Suzhou dialect - he aimed to revitalize poetry through the power of popular songs. This collection is very significant to the understanding of the characters of the mobile society of Jiangnan and the vitality of its intellectual world. The songs deal with the lives of common people: women, often prostitutes, boatmen, peasants, hunters, fishers and paddlers. Their spirit is far from the orthodox moral intents that Zhu Xi advocated for interpreting the Shijing, and their language is often vulgar and full of crude expressions or salacious double meanings and contains allusions to sexual and erotic behaviour.

Mountain Songs is a collection of folk songs edited by the famous writer Feng Menglong (1574-1646). By this innovative work - mainly written in the Suzhou dialect - he aimed to revitalize poetry through the power of popular songs. This collection is very significant to the understanding of the characters of the mobile society of Jiangnan and the vitality of its intellectual world. The songs deal with the lives of common people: women, often prostitutes, boatmen, peasants, hunters, fishers and paddlers. Their spirit is far from the orthodox moral intents that Zhu Xi advocated for interpreting the Shijing, and their language is often vulgar and full of crude expressions or salacious double meanings and contains allusions to sexual and erotic behaviour.