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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gentz, Joachim, editor.

Meyer, Dirk, 1975 April 18- editor.

Series:

Sinica Leidensia ; v. 123.

Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; volume 123

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic--China--History.

Logic.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Manuscripts, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Literary Forms of Argument in Early China 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. Contributors include: Wim De Reu, Joachim Gentz, Christoph Harbsmeier, Martin Kern, Dirk Meyer, Michael Nylan, Andrew H. Plaks, David Schaberg, Rudolf G. Wagner.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Literary Forms of Argument in Early China / Joachim Gentz and Dirk Meyer

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

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

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

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

5 The Philosophy of the Analytic Aperçu / Christoph Harbsmeier

6 Speaking of Poetry: Pattern and Argument in the “Kongzi Shilun” / Martin Kern

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

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

9 Truth Claim with no Claim to Truth: Text and Performance of the “Qiushui” Chapter of the Zhuangzi / Dirk Meyer

Index / Joachim Gentz and Dirk Meyer.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-29970-X

OCLC:

911019870

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004299702 DOI