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Author:

Denecke, Wiebke.

Title:

The dynamics of masters literature : early Chinese thought from Confucius to Han Feizi / Wiebke Denecke.

Publisher:

Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute :

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

viii, 370 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Philosophy, Chinese--To 221 B.C.
Philosophical literature--China--History and criticism.
Chinese literature--To 221 B.C.--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-364) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Chinese philosophy and the translation of disciplines -- The faces of masters literature until the Eastern Han -- Scenes of instruction and master bodies in the Analects -- From scenes of instruction to scenes of construction: Mozi -- Interiority, human nature, and exegesis in Mencius -- Authorship, human nature, and persuasion in Xunzi -- The race for precedence: polemics and the vacuum of traditions in Laozi -- Zhuangzi and the art of negation -- The self-regulating state, paranoia, and rhetoric in Han Feizi -- Epilogue: a future for masters literature and Chinese philosophy.

Series:

Harvard-Yenching Institute monographs ; 74

ISBN:

9780674056091
0674056094

OCLC:

(OCoLC)555658613

LCCN:

2010040082

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)