Portraits of Confucius: The Reception of Confucianism from 1560 to 1960 (Other) (ISBN-13: 9781350079229)

Portraits of Confucius presents a major collection of Western perspectives on Confucius and Confucianism, stretching from the Jesuit missions of the 16th-century to the dawn of modern cross-cultural scholarship in the early 20th-century.

With selections from over 100 figures covering the 1580s to the 1950s, this two-volume work features writing from American and European sources including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Bertrand Russell. Arranged chronologically, they represent methodologies that span philosophy, political science, religious studies, sociology, anthropology, economic theory, linguistics, missionary texts, and works of popular moralism. Together they reveal important ideological trends in Western attitudes toward China--with Confucius becoming positioned at different times as anti-Christian or nearly Christ-like, while Confucianism is interpreted as something positive the West needs to adopt or as something negative that must be opposed.

For scholars and students interested in the life, work and teachings of Confucius and the West's reception of Chinese philosophy, this is an indispensable reference resource.

Author: Kevin Delapp
ISBN-10: 1350079227
ISBN-13: 9781350079229
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2022
Format: Other
Weight: 3.65lbs
Size: 9.53h x 6.30w x 3.15d

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