The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century.
The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming thinkers with specialized linguistic learning, a field typically associated with the intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Nathan Vedal is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
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Note on Language Introduction Part I. Sound and Script 1. The Number of Everything: Music, Cosmology, and the Origins of Language 2. Letters from the West: Sanskrit, Latin, and Phonetic Legibility in Ming China 3. Script, Antiquity, and Mental Training: Metaphysical Inquiry Into the Nondiscursive Potential of Writing Part II. Singing and Speaking, Reading and Writing 4. Opera and the Search for a Universal Language 5. Reading the Classics for Pleasure: Prose as Verse, Verse as Music Part III. Philology: The Making and Remaking of a Discipline 6. Afterlives: Ming Methods and Their Competition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 7. The Reinvention of Philology: Specialization, Disciplinarity, and Intellectual Lineage Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Note on Language Introduction Part I. Sound and Script 1. The Number of Everything: Music, Cosmology, and the Origins of Language 2. Letters from the West: Sanskrit, Latin, and Phonetic Legibility in Ming China 3. Script, Antiquity, and Mental Training: Metaphysical Inquiry Into the Nondiscursive Potential of Writing Part II. Singing and Speaking, Reading and Writing 4. Opera and the Search for a Universal Language 5. Reading the Classics for Pleasure: Prose as Verse, Verse as Music Part III. Philology: The Making and Remaking of a Discipline 6. Afterlives: Ming Methods and Their Competition in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 7. The Reinvention of Philology: Specialization, Disciplinarity, and Intellectual Lineage Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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