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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783270003321

Titolo

Confucius and the Analects : new essays / / edited by Bryan W. Van Norden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2001

ISBN

0-19-773014-0

1-280-47307-X

0-19-535082-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 342 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

Van NordenBryan W (Bryan William)

Disciplina

181.112

181/.112

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: Keeping Warm the Old; 2 Naturalness Revisited: Why Western Philosophers Should Study Confucius; 3 Rén[omitted] and Li[omitted] in the Analects; 4 ""What Does Heaven Say?"": Christian Wolff and Western Interpretations of Confucian Ethics; 5 Conformity, Individuality, and the Nature of Virtue: A Classical Confucian Contribution to Contemporary Ethical Reflection; Part II: Appreciating the New; 6 Whose Confucius? Which Analects?; 7 Confucius and the Analects in the Hàn; 8 Word Philology and Text Philology in Analects 9:1

9 Unweaving the ""One Thread"" of Analects 4:1510 An Existentialist Reading of Book 4 of the Analects; 11 A Woman Who Understood the Rites; An Annotated Bibliography of Works on Confucius and the Analects; Conversion Charts; Index Locorum; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Analects', the sayings attributed to Confucius, is a classic of world literature. Nonetheless there is a great dispute about how to approach and understand both him and his work. This is an anthology of critical writings on this crucial and influential work. The contributors address a host of key topics.