{"product_id":"the-dynamics-of-masters-literature-wiebke-denecke-9780674056091","title":"The Dynamics of Masters Literature: Early Chinese Thought from Confucius to Han Feizi","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe importance of the rich corpus of \"Masters Literature\" that developed in early China since the fifth century BCE has long been recognized. But just what are these texts? Scholars have often approached them as philosophy, but these writings have also been studied as literature, history, and anthropological, religious, and paleographic records. How should we translate these texts for our times? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book explores these questions through close readings of seven examples of Masters Literature and asks what proponents of a \"Chinese philosophy\" gained by creating a Chinese equivalent of philosophy and what we might gain by approaching these texts through other disciplines, questions, and concerns. What happens when we remove the accrued disciplinary and conceptual baggage from the Masters Texts? What neglected problems, concepts, and strategies come to light? And can those concepts and strategies help us see the history of philosophy in a different light and engender new approaches to philosophical and intellectual inquiry? By historicizing the notion of Chinese philosophy, we can, the author contends, answer not only the question of whether there is a Chinese philosophy but also the more interesting question of the future of philosophical thought around the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiebke Denecke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674056094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674056091\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011 pg. 1","brand":"Wiebke Denecke","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46489218908415,"sku":"9780674056091","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cbce5937-c71f-46a1-af43-d84b272d5c60.jpg?v=1736952923","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dynamics-of-masters-literature-wiebke-denecke-9780674056091","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}