Itô Jinsai's Gomô Jigi and the Philosophical Definition of Early Modern Japan

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-04-10992-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

This volume presents the first unabridged translation of Itô' Jinsai's (1627-1705) masterwork, the Gomô jigi (Philosophical Lexicography of the Analects and Mencius, 1705), into any western language.
The extensively annotated translation opens with a brief textual study of the Gomô jigi and an intellectual biography of Jinsai. While highlighting the Neo-Confucian text, the author suggests that the Gomô jigi espouses a systematic philosophical worldview for chônin, or townspeople, living in the ancient imperial capital, Kyoto, even during an age of ascendant samurai power.
The translation makes accessible to Western readers one of the earliest texts of Tokugawa philosophy. Those interested in Chinese and East Asian philosophy will find it enlightening since the topics that Jinsai addresses are also seminal ones in those fields.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tucker, John Allen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

John Allen Tucker, Ph.D. (1990) in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, is an Associate Professor of History at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. He has published several articles on seventeenth-century Tokugawa intellectual history.