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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785563803321

Titolo

Early China/ancient Greece [[electronic resource] ] : thinking through comparisons / / edited by Steven Shankman and Stephen W. Durrant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

0-7914-8894-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

ShankmanSteven <1947->

DurrantStephen W. <1944->

Disciplina

931

Soggetti

Rites and ceremonies - China

China Civilization To 221 B.C

Greece Civilization To 146 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking through Comparisons""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. What Has Athens to Do with Alexandria? or Why Sinoloists Can't Get Along with(out) Philosophers""; ""2. No Time Like the Present: The Category of Contemporaneity in Chinese Studies""; ""3. Humans and Gods: The Theme of Self-Divinization in Early China and Early Greece""; ""4. These Three Come Forth Together,But are Differently Named: Laozi, Zhuangzi, Plato""; ""5. Thinking through Comparisons: Analytical and Narrative Methods for Cultural Understanding""

""6. Alluding to the Text, or the Context""""7. Epistemology in Cultural Context: Disguise and Deception in Early China and Early Greece""; ""8. The Logic of Signs in Early Chinese Rhetoric""; ""9. Means and Means: A Comparative Reading of Aristotle�s Ethics and the Zhongyong""; ""10. Fatalism, Fate, and Stratagem in China and Greece""; ""11. Cratylus and Xunzi on Names""; ""12. Golden Spindles and Axes: Elite Women in the Achaemenid and Han Empires""; ""13. Creating Tradition: Sima Qian Agonistes?""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""J""

""K""""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""