Literary forms of argument in early China / edited by Joachim Gentz and Dirk Meyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gentz, Joachim, editor.

Meyer, Dirk, 1975- editor.

Series:

Sinica Leidensia ; 123.

Sinica Leidensia ; 123

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic--China--History.

Logic.

China.

History.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Manuscripts, Chinese.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 353 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Summary:

This book explores formal approaches to the study of philosophical texts to present new methods for the analysis of pre-modern thought in China. Attempts made by Chinese thinkers to generate literary forms of philosophical reasoning have gone unrecognised within scholarship in China and the West. Drawing together the expertise of leading scholars of early Chinese textuality, this volume addresses this omission by examining the formal characteristics of an argument, the interrelationship between form and content, as well as patterned compositions and non-linear semantic utterances. With these comprehensive new readings, the volume makes a landmark contribution to the study of written thinking in early China.

Contents:

1 A Building Block of Chinese Argumentation: Initial Fu 夫 as a Phrase Status Marker / Rudolf G. Wagner Wagner, Rudolf G. 37

2 Beyond Parallelism: A Rethinking of Patterns of Coordination and Subordination in Chinese Expository Prose / Andrew H. Plaks Plaks, Andrew H. 67

3 On the Range and Performance of Laozi-Style Tetrasyllables / David Schaberg Schaberg, David 87

4 Defining Boundaries and Relations of Textual Units: Examples from the Literary Tool-Kit of Early Chinese Argumentation / Joachim Gentz Gentz, Joachim 112

5 The Philosophy of the Analytic Apercu / Christoph Harbsmeier Harbsmeier, Christoph 158

6 Speaking of Poetry: Pattern and Argument in the "Kongzi Shilun" / Martin Kern Kern, Martin 175

7 Structure and Anti-Structure, Convention and Counter-Convention: Clues to the Exemplary Figure's (Fayan) Construction of Yang Xiong as Classical Master / Michael Nylan Nylan, Michael 201

8 A Ragbag of Qdds and Ends? Argument Structure and Philosophical Coherence in Zhuangzi 26 / Wim De Reu Reu, Wim De 243

9 Truth Claim with no Claim to Truth: Text and Performance of the "Qiushui" Chapter of the Zhuangzi / Dirk Meyer Meyer, Dirk 297.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004291607

9004291601

OCLC:

911019870