Ironies of oneness and difference : coherence in early Chinese thought : prolegomena to the study of Li /
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| Author / Creator: | Ziporyn, Brook, 1964- |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c2012. |
| Description: | ix, 323 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8932475 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Rethinking Same and Different
- Coherence and Li: Plan and Method of This Book and Its Sequel
- Chapter 1. Essences, Universals, and Omnipresence: Absolute Sameness and Difference
- Essences, Universals, Categories, Ideas: Simple Location and the Disjunction of Same and Different in Mainstream Western Philosophy
- Same and Different in Form and Matter
- Two Opposite Derivations of the Omnipresent
- Chapter 2. What is Coherence?: Chinese Paradigms
- Coherence as Opposed to Law, Rule, Principle, Pattern: Harmony Versus Repeatability
- Is White Horse Horse?
- Qian Mu's Pendulum
- Ironic and Non-Ironic Coherence
- Chapter 3. Non-Ironic Coherence and Negotiable Continuity
- Coherence and Omniavailability of Value in Confucius and Mencius
- Coherence and Heaven in the Analects
- Ritual Versus Law: Cultural Grammar
- Rectification of Names: Negotiated Identity as a Function of Ritual
- Classes and Types in Mencius
- Omnipresence in Mencius
- Transition to Ironic Coherence: Qi-Omnipresence and the Empty Center in Pre-Ironic Proto-Daoism
- Chapter 4. Ironic Coherence and the Discovery of the "Yin"
- The Laozi Tradition: Desiring W/holes
- Overview of Ironic Coherence in the Laozi
- The Five Meanings of the Unhewn: Omnipresence and Ironic Coherence in the Laozi
- Zhuangzi's Wild Card: Thing as Perspective
- Using the Wild Card
- The Wild Card against Both Objective Truth and Subjective Solipsism
- Conclusion to Chapter Four: Ironic Coherence
- Chapter 5. Non-Ironic Responses to Ironic Coherence in Xunzi and the Record of Ritual
- Xunzi and the Regulation of Sameness and Difference
- Omnipresence and Coherence in Xunzi
- Two Texts from the Record of Ritual (Liji): "The Great Learning," and "The Doctrine of the Mean"
- Chapter 6. The Yin-Yang Compromise
- Yin-Yang Theism in Dong Zhongshu: The Metastasis of Harmony and Irony
- An Alternate Yin-Yang Divination System: Yang Xiong's Taixuanjing
- Conclusion and Summary Toward Li
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
