Early China/Ancient Greece

David W. Goodrich

Description

This pioneering book compares Chinese and Western thought to offer a bracing and unpredictable cross-cultural conversation. The work contributes to the emerging field of Sino-Hellenic studies, which links two great and influential cultures that, in fact, had virtually no contact during the ancient period. The patterns of thought and the cultural productions of early China and ancient Greece represent two significantly different responses to the myriad problems that human beings confront. Throughout this volume the comparisons between these cultures evince two critical ideas. First, that thinking is itself an inherently comparative activity. Through making comparisons, the familiar becomes strange, and the strange somewhat more familiar. Second, since we think through comparisons, we should think them all the way through. How valid and productive are the comparisons and contrasts made between particular works and different styles of thought that emerged from two different, although contemporaneous, cultural contexts?

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

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie antique
• Ancient philosophy
• History of philosophy

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791488942
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 14 Mo

Extrait

Early China /Ancient Greece T h i n k i n g t h r o u g h C o m p a r i s o n s

Steven Shankman Stephen W. Durrant E D I T O R S

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Early China /Ancient Greece

SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, editors

Early China /Ancient Greece

Thinking through Comparisons

Edited by S t e v e n S han k man an d S t e p h e n W. D u r ra n t

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

© 2002 State University of New York

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Early China/ancient Greece : thinking through comparisons / edited by Steven Shankman and Stephen W. Durrant p. cm. — (SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–7914–5313–8 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0–7914–5314–6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. China—Civilization—To 221b.c.2. Greece—Civilization—To 146b.c. I. Shankman, Steven, 1947– II. Durrant, StephenW., 1944– III. Series.

DS741.65 .E352002 931—dc21

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

2001034387

To the Memory of Dav i d L . H a l l philosopher, thinker through comparisons.

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Contents

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 Dav i d L . H a l l 2.No Time Like the Present: The Category of Contemporaneity in Chinese Studies H au n S au s sy 3.Humans and Gods: The Theme of Self-Divinization in Early China and Early Greece M i c h a e l P u e t t 4.“These Three Come Forth Together, But are Differently Named”: Laozi, Zhuangzi, Plato S t e v e n S h an k man 5.Thinking through Comparisons: Analytical and Narrative Methods for Cultural Understanding Ro g e r T. A m e s 6.Alluding to the Text, or the Context C . H . Wa n g 7.Epistemology in Cultural Context: Disguise and Deception in Early China and Early Greece Dav i d N . K e i g h t l e y

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8.The Logic of Signs in Early Chinese Rhetoric Dav i d S c h a b e r g 9.Means and Means: A Comparative Reading of Aristotle’s Ethicsand theZhongyong A n d r e w P lak s 10.Fatalism, Fate, and Stratagem in China and Greece L i s a R a p h a l s 11. CratylusandXunzion Names A n t h o n y C . Yu 12.Golden Spindles and Axes: Elite Women in the Archaemenid and Han Empires M i c h a e l N y l an 13.Creating Tradition: Sima Qian Agonistes? S t e p h e n W. D u r ra n t

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