Author: Steven Shankman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791488942
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This pioneering book compares Chinese and Western thought to offer a bracing and unpredictable cross-cultural conversation. The work contributes to the emerging field of Sino-Hellenic studies, which links two great and influential cultures that, in fact, had virtually no contact during the ancient period. The patterns of thought and the cultural productions of early China and ancient Greece represent two significantly different responses to the myriad problems that human beings confront. Throughout this volume the comparisons between these cultures evince two critical ideas. First, that thinking is itself an inherently comparative activity. Through making comparisons, the familiar becomes strange, and the strange somewhat more familiar. Second, since we think through comparisons, we should think them all the way through. How valid and productive are the comparisons and contrasts made between particular works and different styles of thought that emerged from two different, although contemporaneous, cultural contexts?
Early China/Ancient Greece
Early China/Ancient Greece
Author: Steven Shankman
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791453148
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791453148
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.
Ancient Greece and China Compared
Author: G. E. R. Lloyd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108340326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Ancient Greece and China Compared is a pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies, bringing together scholars who all share the conviction that the sustained critical comparison and contrast between ancient societies can bring to light significant aspects of each that would be missed by focusing on just one of them. The topics tackled include key issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences (including gender studies), in agriculture, city planning and institutions. The volume also analyses how to go about the task of comparing, including finding viable comparanda and avoiding the trap of interpreting one culture in terms appropriate only to another. The book is set to provide a model for future collaborative and interdisciplinary work exploring what is common between ancient civilisations, what is distinctive of particular ones, and what may help to account for the latter.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108340326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Ancient Greece and China Compared is a pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies, bringing together scholars who all share the conviction that the sustained critical comparison and contrast between ancient societies can bring to light significant aspects of each that would be missed by focusing on just one of them. The topics tackled include key issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences (including gender studies), in agriculture, city planning and institutions. The volume also analyses how to go about the task of comparing, including finding viable comparanda and avoiding the trap of interpreting one culture in terms appropriate only to another. The book is set to provide a model for future collaborative and interdisciplinary work exploring what is common between ancient civilisations, what is distinctive of particular ones, and what may help to account for the latter.
Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece
Author: Lisa Raphals
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107010756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107010756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.
Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
Author: Hans Beck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108485774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A comparative study of the ancient Mediterranean and Han China, seen through the lens of political culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108485774
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A comparative study of the ancient Mediterranean and Han China, seen through the lens of political culture.
Ancient Greece and China Compared
Author: G. E. R. Lloyd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107086663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
A pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies describing and analysing key features of ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations, including issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences, in agriculture, city planning and institutions. Provides a model for collaborative, comparative work on ancient civilisations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107086663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
A pioneering, methodologically sophisticated set of studies describing and analysing key features of ancient Greek and Chinese civilisations, including issues in philosophy and religion, in art and literature, in mathematics and the life sciences, in agriculture, city planning and institutions. Provides a model for collaborative, comparative work on ancient civilisations.
The Ambitions of Curiosity
Author: G. E. R. Lloyd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher Description
Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China
Author: Hyunjin Kim
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Argues that Greece was an integral part of the wider Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern civilization and that this had a major impact on the ways in which the Greeks chose to represent foreigners in their literature.
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Argues that Greece was an integral part of the wider Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern civilization and that this had a major impact on the ways in which the Greeks chose to represent foreigners in their literature.
Comparative Essays in Early Greek and Chinese Rational Thinking
Author: Jean-Paul Reding
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351950053
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This collection of essays, by Reding, in the emergent field of Sino-Hellenic studies, explores the neglected inchoative strains of rational thought in ancient China and compares them to similar themes in ancient Greek thought, right at the beginnings of philosophy in both cultures. Reding develops and defends the bold hypothesis that Greek and Chinese rational thinking are one and the same phenomenon. Rather than stressing the extreme differences between these two cultures - as most other writings on these subjects - Reding looks for the parameters that have to be restored to see the similarities. Reding maintains that philosophy is like an unknown continent discovered simultaneously in both China and Greece, but from different starting-points. The book comprises seven essays moving thematically from conceptual analysis, logic and categories to epistemology and ontology, with an incursion in the field of comparative metaphorology. One of the book's main concerns is a systematic examination of the problem of linguistic relativism through many detailed examples.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351950053
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This collection of essays, by Reding, in the emergent field of Sino-Hellenic studies, explores the neglected inchoative strains of rational thought in ancient China and compares them to similar themes in ancient Greek thought, right at the beginnings of philosophy in both cultures. Reding develops and defends the bold hypothesis that Greek and Chinese rational thinking are one and the same phenomenon. Rather than stressing the extreme differences between these two cultures - as most other writings on these subjects - Reding looks for the parameters that have to be restored to see the similarities. Reding maintains that philosophy is like an unknown continent discovered simultaneously in both China and Greece, but from different starting-points. The book comprises seven essays moving thematically from conceptual analysis, logic and categories to epistemology and ontology, with an incursion in the field of comparative metaphorology. One of the book's main concerns is a systematic examination of the problem of linguistic relativism through many detailed examples.
Ancient China : life, myth and art
Author: Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760780558
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Even today the economic powerhouse of modern China takes strength and nourishment from its legacy of antiquity. Ancient China illuminates this venerable heritage with unprecedented scholarship and vividness.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760780558
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Even today the economic powerhouse of modern China takes strength and nourishment from its legacy of antiquity. Ancient China illuminates this venerable heritage with unprecedented scholarship and vividness.