Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects : canon, commentary, and the classical tradition / Daniel K. Gardner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Daniel K., 1950-

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Confucius. Lun yu.

Confucius.

Zhu, Xi, 1130-1200. Lun yu ji zhu.

Zhu, Xi.

Neo-Confucianism.

Physical Description:

x, 226 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Canon, commentary, and the classical tradition

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]

Language Note:

Translated from the Chinese.

Summary:

At the time of the establishment of the Song dynasty in the tenth century, the so-called Five Classics had long been regarded as the authoritative texts in the Confucian tradition. By the close of the dynasty, they had lost their privileged status to the Four Books--the Greater Learning, the Analects, the Mencius, and the Mean. But this was not just because Confucians of the Song had shifted their scholarly attention from one set of canonical texts to another. How they read the canon itself had changed. An elaborate language of metaphysics had come to be employed in the interpretation of the Confucian texts, and Confucian teachings had been given a distinctly different philosophical orientation. Many scholars over the course of the dynasty were associated with these changes, but none more closely than Zhu Xi (I 130-1200). This book explains the significance of Zhu's interpretation of the Confucian tradition and of the genre of commentary in Eastern philosophy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-213) and index.

Contains:

Confucius. Lun yu. Selections. English

ISBN:

0231128649

0231128657

OCLC:

51330242