Guodian

The Newly Discovered Seeds of Chinese Religious and Political Philosophy

Kenneth Holloway (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

210 Seiten

2009
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-537145-1 (ISBN)

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Fourteen years ago, a corpus of bamboo-strip texts was found in a late-fourth-century-BCE tomb at Jingmen, Hubei province in central China. The discovery of the "Guodian" texts, together with other recently discovered Warring States manuscripts, has revolutionized the study of early Chinese intellectual history. Kenneth Holloway argues that the Guodian corpus puts forth a political philosophy based on the harmonious interconnection of individuals engaged in moral self cultivation. This unique worldview, says Holloway, cannot meaningfully be categorized as "Confucian" or "Daoist," because it shares important concepts and vocabulary with a number of different textual traditions that have anachronistically been characterized as competing or incompatible "schools" of thought. He finds that within the Guodian corpus familiar philosophical concepts and texts are applied in distinctive ways, presenting a worldview that is quite different from the received textual traditions. In addition to contributing to our understanding of this particular body of texts, Holloway proposes a methodology for assessing a corpus of texts without relying on assumptions and definitions that derive from two millennia of scholarship.

Kenneth Holloway is Assistant Professor of History and Levenson Professor of Asian Studies, Florida Atlantic University.

CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; APPENDIX: GUODIAN VERSION OF THE FIVE ASPECTS OF CONDUCT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; INDEX

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2009
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	211 x 142 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10	0-19-537145-3 / 0195371453
ISBN-13	978-0-19-537145-1 / 9780195371451
Zustand	Neuware