The world of thought in ancient China /
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| Author / Creator: | Schwartz, Benjamin I. (Benjamin Isadore), 1916-1999, author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (490 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11146100 |
| Summary: | The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers views which stress the unity of Chinese culture Attention is accorded to pre-Confucian texts, to the evolution of early Confucianism, to Mo-Tzu, to the "Taoists" the legalists, the Ying-Yang school, the "five classics" as well as to intellectual issues which cut across the conventional classification of schools. The main focus is on the high cultural texts, but Mr.Schwartz also explores the question of the relationship of these texts to the vast realm of popular culture. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (490 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-468) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0674961900 9780674961906 0674961919 9780674961913 9780674043312 0674043316 |