Shankman / Durrant Early China/Ancient Greece

Thinking through Comparisons
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8894-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shankman, Steven

Durrant, Stephen W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Steven Shankman and Stephen W. Durrant 1. What Has Athens to Do with Alexandria? or Why Sinologists Can't Get Along with(out) Philosophers
David L. Hall 2. No Time Like the Present: The Category of Contemporaneity in Chinese Studies
Haun Saussy 3. Humans and Gods: The Theme of Self-Divinization in Early China and Early Greece
Michael Puett 4. "These Three Come Forth Together, But are Differently Named": Laozi, Zhuangzi, Plato
Steven Shankman 5. Thinking through Comparisons: Analytical and Narrative Methods for Cultural Understanding
Roger T. Ames 6. Alluding to the Text, or the Context
C. H. Wang 7. Epistemology in Cultural Context: Disguise and Deception in Early China and Early Greece
David N. Keightley 8. The Logic of Signs in Early Chinese Rhetoric
David Schaberg 9. Means and Means: A Comparative Reading of Aristotle's Ethics and the Zhongyong
Andrew Plaks 10. Fatalism, Fate, and Stratagem in China and Greece
Lisa Raphals 11. Cratylus and Xunzi on Names
Anthony C. Yu 12. Golden Spindles and Axes: Elite Women in the Archaemenid and Han Empires
Michael Nylan 13. Creating Tradition: Sima Qian Agonistes?
Stephen W. Durrant List of Contributors Index

Über Autor(innen)

At the University of Oregon, Steven Shankman is Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and Stephen W. Durrant is Professor of Chinese. They are coauthors of The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China. Shankman is also the author of In Search of the Classic and Durrant is also the author of The Cloudy Mirror: Tension and Conflict in the Writing of Sima Qian, published by SUNY Press.