Language As Bodily Practice In Early China
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Language As Bodily Practice In Early China
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Author : Jane Geaney
language : en
Publisher: Suny Series in Chinese Philoso
Release Date : 2019-01-02
Language As Bodily Practice In Early China written by Jane Geaney and has been published by Suny Series in Chinese Philoso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-02 with Philosophy categories.
Challenges the idea held by many prominent twentieth-century Sinologists that early China experienced a "language crisis."
Language As Bodily Practice In Early China
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Author : Jane Geaney
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2018-03-01
Language As Bodily Practice In Early China written by Jane Geaney and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-01 with Philosophy categories.
Jane Geaney argues that early Chinese conceptions of speech and naming cannot be properly understood if viewed through the dominant Western philosophical tradition in which language is framed through dualisms that are based on hierarchies of speech and writing, such as reality/appearance and one/many. Instead, early Chinese texts repeatedly create pairings of sounds and various visible things. This aural/visual polarity suggests that texts from early China treat speech as a bodily practice that is not detachable from its use in everyday experience. Firmly grounded in ideas about bodies from the early texts themselves, Geaney's interpretation offers new insights into three key themes in these texts: the notion of speakers' intentions (yi), the physical process of emulating exemplary people, and Confucius's proposal to rectify names (zhengming).
The Craft Of Oblivion
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Author : Albert Galvany
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2023-07-01
The Craft Of Oblivion written by Albert Galvany and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-01 with History categories.
Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization. The Craft of Oblivion is an innovative and groundbreaking volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization. Oblivion has tended to be relegated to a marginal position, often conceived as the mere destructive or undesirable opposite of memory, even though it performs an essential function in our lives. Forgetting and memory, far from being autonomous and mutually exclusive spheres, should be seen as interdependent phenomena. Drawing on perspectives from history, philosophy, literature, and religion, and examining both transmitted texts and excavated materials, the contributors to this volume analyze various ways of understanding oblivion and its complex and fertile relations with memory in ancient China.
The Emergence Of Word Meaning In Early China
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Author : Jane Geaney
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2022-07-01
The Emergence Of Word Meaning In Early China written by Jane Geaney and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-01 with Philosophy categories.
The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China makes an innovative contribution to studies of language by historicizing the Chinese notion that words have "meaning" (content independent of instances of use). Rather than presuming that the concept of word-meaning had always existed, Jane Geaney explains how and why it arose in China. To account for why a normative term (yi, "duty, morality, appropriateness") came to be used for "meanings" found in dictionaries, Geaney examines interrelated patterns of word usage threading through and across a wide range of genres. These patterns show that by the first millennium, as textual production exploded—and as radically different writing forms (in Buddhist sutras) were encountered—yi already functioned as an externally accessible "model" for semantic interpretation of texts and sayings. The book has far-reaching implications. Because the idea of word-meaning is fundamental to theorizing, the book illuminates not only semantic ideas and the normativity of language in Early China, but also aspects of early Chinese philosophy and intellectual history. As the internet supplants one form of media (print), thereby reducing knowledge to vast digital databases, so too, this book explains, two thousand years ago a culture that prized oral and visual balance became an "empire of the text."
Physiognomy In Ming China Fortune And The Body
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Author : Xing Wang
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-03-23
Physiognomy In Ming China Fortune And The Body written by Xing Wang and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-23 with History categories.
In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang investigates the intellectual and technical contexts in which the knowledge of physiognomy (xiangshu) was produced and transformed in Ming China (1368-1644 C.E.). Known as a fortune-telling technique via examining the human body and material objects, Xing Wang shows how the construction of the physiognomic body in many Ming texts represent a unique, unprecedented ‘somatic cosmology’. Applying an anthropological reading to these texts and providing detailed analysis of this technique, the author proves that this physiognomic cosmology in Ming China emerged as a part of a new body discourse which differs from the modern scholarly discourse on the body.
Different Beasts
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Author : Sonya N. Özbey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024
Different Beasts written by Sonya N. Özbey and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Philosophy categories.
Different Beasts explores conceptions of animality and humanity as they emerge in the writings of Spinoza and in the ancient Chinese text known as the Zhuangzi. The project thus brings together works from distant and different pasts to bear on debates regarding the human-animal binary in its many constructions. It also investigates what is at stake in the formation of responsible comparison--one that is contextually grounded and refined in detail--to understand how the complex machinery behind the human-animal binary operates in different philosophical systems.
The Making Of The Global Yijing In The Modern World
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Author : Benjamin Wai-ming Ng
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-26
The Making Of The Global Yijing In The Modern World written by Benjamin Wai-ming Ng and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-26 with Religion categories.
This book represents an ambitious effort to bring leading Yijing scholars together to examine the globalisation and localisation of the 'Book of Changes' from cross-cultural and comparative perspectives. It focuses on how the Yijing has been used to support ideologies, converted into knowledge, and assimilated into global cultures in the modern period, transported from the Sinosphere to British, American and French cultural traditions, travelling from East Asia to Europe and the United States. The book provides conceptualised narratives and cross-cultural analyses of the global popularisation and local assimilation of the Yijing, highlighting the transformation and application of the Yijing in different cultural traditions, and demonstrating how it acquired different meanings and took on different roles in the context of a global setting. In presenting a novel contribution to understandings of the multifaceted nature of the Yijing, this book is essential reading for scholars and students interested in the 'Classic of Changes'. It is also a useful reference for those studying Chinese culture, Asian philosophy, East Asian studies, and translation studies.
Dao Companion To Chinese Philosophy Of Logic
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Author : Yiu-ming Fung
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-06-10
Dao Companion To Chinese Philosophy Of Logic written by Yiu-ming Fung and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-10 with Philosophy categories.
This book is a companion to logical thought and logical thinking in China with a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It introduces the basic ideas and theories of Chinese thought in a comprehensive and analytical way. It covers thoughts in ancient, pre-modern and modern China from a historical point of view. It deals with topics in logical (including logico-philosophical) concepts and theories rooted in China, Indian and Western Logic transplanted to China, and the development of logical studies in contemporary China and other Chinese communities. The term “philosophy of logic” or “logico-philosophical thought” is used in this book to represent “logical thought” in a broad sense which includes thinking on logical concepts, modes of reasoning, and linguistic ideas related to logic and philosophical logic. Unique in its approach, the book uses Western logical theories and philosophy of language, Chinese philology, and history of ideas to deal with the basic ideas and major problems in logical thought and logical thinking in China. In doing so, it advances the understanding of the lost tradition in Chinese philosophical studies.
Genre Networks And Empire
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Author : Xiaoye You
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Genre Networks And Empire written by Xiaoye You and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with History categories.
"This book argues that political persuasion expanded in early imperial China through diverse written genres, and that what ancient Chinese called wenti jingwei, or genre networks, provides the central means to understand rhetoric and government at the time"--
Having A Word With Angus Graham
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Author : Carine Defoort
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2018-03-01
Having A Word With Angus Graham written by Carine Defoort and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-01 with Philosophy categories.
Critical reflections on the work of Angus Charles Graham, renowned Western scholar of Chinese philosophy and sinology. This volume engages with the works and ideas of Angus Charles Graham (1919–1991), one of the most prominent Western scholars of Chinese philosophy, at the twenty-fifth anniversary of his passing. Over a professional career of more than thirty years, Angus Graham produced an impressive amount of scholarship on a wide array of topics, ranging from Chinese grammar and philology to poetry and philosophy. His combination of rigorous scholarship and philosophical originality has continued to inspire scholars to tackle related research topics, and in so doing, has required of them a response to his views. This book illustrates the range of scholarship still elaborating upon, disagreeing with, and reacting to Graham's work on Chinese thought, philosophy, philology, and translation.