Guodian
The Newly Discovered Seeds of Chinese Religious and Political Philosophy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 April 2009
- ISBN 9780195371451
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages210 pages
- Size 142x211x17 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
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.
This remarkably slim, elegant and pleasant to read volume sits as an attractive tip on an iceberg of painstaking work ... accessible and stimulating
Table of Contents:
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Religious Characteristics of Guodian Texts
Guodian and Traditional Views of China
Rhetoric as Self-Cultivation: A Question of Language
Attaining Unity in Guodian Texts
Harmonizing Aristocracy and Meritocracy
Appendix: Guodian Version of The Five Aspects of Conduct
Bibliography
Notes
Index
