Kenneth Holloway

Guodian (eBook, ePUB)

The Newly Discovered Seeds of Chinese Religious and Political Philosophy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199888153
• Artikelnr.: 38147848

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Introduction
1: Religious Characteristics of Guodian Texts
2: Guodian and Traditional Views of China
3: Rhetoric as Self-Cultivation: A Question of Language
4: Attaining Unity in Guodian Texts
5: Harmonizing Aristocracy and Meritocracy
Appendix: Guodian Version of The Five Aspects of Conduct
Bibliography
Notes
Index