Confucius and the Analects New Essays

Name: Confucius and the Analects New Essays
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ISBN: 9780195133950

ISBN-10: 0195133951

ISBN-13: 9780195133950

Edition: 2002

Authors: Bryan W. Van Norden

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Confucius is one of the most influential figures--as historical individual and as symbol--in world history; and the Analects, the sayings attributed to Confucius and his disciples, is a classic of world literature. Nonetheless, how to understand both figure and text is constantly under dispute. Surprisingly, this volume is the first and only anthology on these topics in English. Here, contributors apply a variety of different methodologies (including philosophical, philological, and religious) and address a number of important topics, from Confucius and western "virtue ethics" to Confucius' attitude towards women to the historical composition of the text of the Analects. Scholars will…

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List price: $235.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/3/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 9.29" wide x 12.28" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Bryan W. Van Norden is Professor in the Philosophy Department, and in the department of Chinese and Japanese, at Vassar College.



Contributors



Introduction




Keeping Warm the Old



Naturalness Revisited: Why Western Philosophers Should Study Confucius




Ren [actual symbol not reproducible] and [actual symbol not reproducible] in the Analects




"What Does Heaven Say?": Christian Wolff and Western Interpretations of Confucian Ethics




Conformity, Individuality, and the Nature of Virtue: A Classical Confucian Contribution to Contemporary Ethical Reflection




Appreciating the New



Whose Confucius? Which Analects?




Confucius and the Analects in the Han




Word Philology and Text Philology in Analects 9:1




Unweaving the "One Thread" of Analects 4:15




An Existentialist Reading of Book 4 of the Analects




A Woman Who Understood the Rites



An Annotated Bibliography of Works on Confucius and the Analects



Conversion Charts


Index Locorum


General Index