The siren and the sage : knowledge and wisdom in ancient Greece and China / Steven Shankman and Stephen Durrant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shankman, Steven, 1947-

Contributor:

Durrant, Stephen W., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Chinese literature--To 221 B.C--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Comparative literature--Greek and Chinese.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Chinese and Greek.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Greece--Intellectual life.

Greece.

China--Intellectual life.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Cassell, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A comparative study of what the most influential writers of Ancient Greece and China thought it meant to have knowledge and whether they distinguished knowledge from other forms of wisdom. It surveys selected works of poetry, history and philosophy from the period of roughly the eighth through to the second century BCE, including Homer's ""Odyssey"", the ancient Chinese ""Classic of Poetry"", Thucydides' ""History of the Peloponnesian War"", Sima Qian's ""Records of the Historian"", Plato's ""Symposium"", and Laozi's ""Dao de Jing and the writings of Zhuangzi"". The intention, through such jux

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Intimations of intentionality: the Classic of Poetry and the Odyssey; Part II: Before and after philosophy: Thucydides and Sima Qian; Part III: The philosopher, the sage, and the experience of participation; Afterwords; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-248) and index.

ISBN:

9786611291891

9781281291899

1281291897

9781847141842

1847141846

OCLC:

290595853