After Wisdom
Sapiential Traditions and Ancient Scholarship in Comparative Perspective
Published on 15. December 2022
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-90-04-52900-7 (ISBN)
Description
The nine essays in this volume, written by an international interdisciplinary group of younger scholars, explore comparative dimensions of ancient Chinese and Greek literature. They illuminate the development and interrelations of two modes of thought - mythos and logos, or myth and reason - characteristic of certain ancient cultures, including these two, during the second half of the first millennium BCE. They interrogate the meaning and validity of these concepts and of the category of "wisdom literature," demonstrating that they must be understood critically and that their interrelations are extraordinarily complex and productive. In particular, they explore modes of the rationalizing appropriation of mythic discourses - commentary, edition, philosophy, history - which deconstruct their traditional authority but also secure their survival and continuing significance.
Contributors
Tomas Bartoletti, Gaston J. Basile, Thomas Crone, Andrew Hui, Fabio Pagani, Luke Parker, Leihua Weng, Kenneth W. Yu and Jingyi Jenny Zhao.
Contributors
Tomas Bartoletti, Gaston J. Basile, Thomas Crone, Andrew Hui, Fabio Pagani, Luke Parker, Leihua Weng, Kenneth W. Yu and Jingyi Jenny Zhao.
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Series
Edition
VI, 298 pp. (tot. 304 pp.)
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
633 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-52900-7 (9789004529007)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Glenn W. Most, Prof., PhD (Yale/Tuebingen, 1980) is a classicist and comparatist. He is a regular Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought (University of Chicago) and External Scientific Member of the MPIWG, Berlin. He has published numerous articles and books on Classics, philosophy, the history of religion, and comparative literature, among other fields. Most recently, he has coedited Impagination - Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication. Interdisciplinary Approaches from East and West (De Gruyter, 2021).
Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1994. His research is focused upon bringing the study of early China into larger comparative frameworks.
Contributors
Tomas Bartoletti, Gaston J. Basile, Thomas Crone, Andrew Hui, Fabio Pagani, Luke Parker, Leihua Weng, Kenneth W. Yu and Jingyi Jenny Zhao.
Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1994. His research is focused upon bringing the study of early China into larger comparative frameworks.
Contributors
Tomas Bartoletti, Gaston J. Basile, Thomas Crone, Andrew Hui, Fabio Pagani, Luke Parker, Leihua Weng, Kenneth W. Yu and Jingyi Jenny Zhao.
Content
Introduction
?Glenn W. Most and Michael Puett
Part 1 Comparing Greek and Chinese Wisdom Literatures
1 Aided-by-Ink's Son and Mistery's Great-Grandson: Wisdom and Oracular Literature in Classical China and Ancient Greece
?Tomas Bartoletti
2 Wisdom Literature, Orality, and Textual Histories: Another Look at Heraclitus and the Laozi
?Luke Parker
3 Representations of Infancy and Childhood in Laozi and Heraclitus
?Jingyi Jenny Zhao
Part 2 Chinese Wisdom Literature as Seen from Greece
4 Confucian Pollen: A Comparative Reading of the Xunzi Chapter "Great Compendium" (da luee ??)
?Thomas Crone
5 "The Master Says": Speech and Silence in the Analects
?Andrew Hui
6 Lady Mu of Xu's Returning to Her Natal Home in "Zaichi" ?? (Gallop): A Comparative Perspective of the Early Scholarship of the Shijing ?? (Book of Odes)
?Leihua Weng
Part 3 Greek Wisdom Literature as Seen from China
7 In the Wake of Wisdom: The Early Greek Prose Inquiries from a Comparative Perspective
?Gaston J. Basile
8 Straight to the Divine: Claims of Self-Divinization in Plato and the Nei-yeh
?Fabio Pagani
9 Textualizing Wonders: Ancient Greek Paradoxography in Comparative Perspective
?Kenneth W. Yu
Index of Names and Subjects
?Glenn W. Most and Michael Puett
Part 1 Comparing Greek and Chinese Wisdom Literatures
1 Aided-by-Ink's Son and Mistery's Great-Grandson: Wisdom and Oracular Literature in Classical China and Ancient Greece
?Tomas Bartoletti
2 Wisdom Literature, Orality, and Textual Histories: Another Look at Heraclitus and the Laozi
?Luke Parker
3 Representations of Infancy and Childhood in Laozi and Heraclitus
?Jingyi Jenny Zhao
Part 2 Chinese Wisdom Literature as Seen from Greece
4 Confucian Pollen: A Comparative Reading of the Xunzi Chapter "Great Compendium" (da luee ??)
?Thomas Crone
5 "The Master Says": Speech and Silence in the Analects
?Andrew Hui
6 Lady Mu of Xu's Returning to Her Natal Home in "Zaichi" ?? (Gallop): A Comparative Perspective of the Early Scholarship of the Shijing ?? (Book of Odes)
?Leihua Weng
Part 3 Greek Wisdom Literature as Seen from China
7 In the Wake of Wisdom: The Early Greek Prose Inquiries from a Comparative Perspective
?Gaston J. Basile
8 Straight to the Divine: Claims of Self-Divinization in Plato and the Nei-yeh
?Fabio Pagani
9 Textualizing Wonders: Ancient Greek Paradoxography in Comparative Perspective
?Kenneth W. Yu
Index of Names and Subjects