THE WORLD OF THOUGHT IN ANCIENT CHINA
Language: English
Published by Belknap Press/Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, 1985
- First Edition
- Softcover
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Text/Bright, clean, As New. Softcover/VG; sound w/light edge wear, and discoloration (tea spill?) w/closed tears to lower front edges by spine now sealed w/archival tape. A learned study of Ancient Chinese intellectual history. Academic scholar, sinologist of great reknown, Benjamin Isadore Schwartz (1916 - 1999) considers earliest wrtten records to assess antecedents of the ultimately dominant Confucianism and its path towardss maturation. Schools of thought covred include those of Mo-Tzu; Lao Tzu (the Taoists); the Yin-Yang school that rose durimg the Warring States period; thoughts of Han Fei Tzu (the Legalists) embraced by the Chin Dynasty government. Schwartz also analyzes the relationship of these classic texts to the universe of discourse of popular culture. 490 pgs om 10 chapters: 1, Early Cultural Orientations; 2, Early Chou Thought; 3, Confucius; 4, Mo-tzu's Challenge; 5, The Emergence of a Common Discourse Some Key Terms; 6, The Ways of Taoism; 7, The Defense of the Confucian Faith: Mencius & Hsun-tzu; 8, Legalism: The Behavorial Science; 9, Correlative Cosmology: The School of "Yin and Yang"; and 10, The Five Classics. Fine copy in a lesser softcover.…
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- Title
- THE WORLD OF THOUGHT IN ANCIENT CHINA
- Author
- Benjamin I. Schwartz
- Publisher
- Belknap Press/Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- None as Issued
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674961919
- ISBN 13
- 9780674961913
- Edition
- First Edition, 2nd Printing Fo 1998
- Seller catalogs
- History, Philosophy, Reference, Resource
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