Transmitters and Creators : Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects / John Makeham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Makeham, John, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 228.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 228

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Confucius. Lun yu.

Confucius.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 457 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2003.

Other Title:

Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects

Place of Publication:

Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 2003.

Summary:

"The Analects (Lunyu) is one of the most influential texts in human history. As a putative record of Confucius's (551-479 B.C.E.) teachings and a foundational text in scriptural Confucianism, this classic was instrumental in shaping intellectual traditions in China and East Asia until the early twentieth century. But no premodern reader read only the text of the Analects itself. Rather, the Analects was embedded in a web of interpretation that mediated its meaning. Modern interpreters of the Analects only rarely acknowledge this legacy of two thousand years of commentaries. How well do we understand prominent or key commentaries from this tradition? How often do we read such commentaries as we might read the text on which they comment? Many commentaries do more than simply comment on a text. Not only do they shape the reading of the text, but passages of text serve as pretexts for the commentator to develop and expound his own body of thought. This book attempts to redress our neglect of commentaries by analyzing four key works dating from the late second century to the mid-nineteenth century (a period substantially contemporaneous with the rise and decline of scriptural Confucianism): the commentaries of He Yan (ca. 190-249); Huang Kan (488-545); Zhu Xi (1130-1200); and Liu Baonan (1791-1855) and Liu Gongmian (1821-1880).".

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Commentary as Authority He Yan et al., Lunyu jijie (Collected Explanations of the Analects

He Yan, Authorship, and Xuanxue Thought

Innovation As/Through Form

Commentary as Philosophy Huang Kan's Lunyu yishu (Elucidation of the Meaning of the Analects)

Huang Kan and the Shu Genre

The Philosophical Character of Elucidation of the Meaning

Buddhist and Institutional Influences on Huang's Thought

Beyond Method Zhu Xi's Lunyu jizhu (Collected Annotations on the Analects)

Zhu Xi, Commentary and the Analects

Zhu Xi on Learning

The Rhetoric and Reality of Learning to Be a Sage

Method and Truth Liu Baonan and Liu Gongrnian's Lunyu zhengyi (Correct Meaning of the Analects)

Liu Baonan and Liu Gongmian

Liu Baonan and Han Learning

Confucius as Cultural Custodian

Epilogue

Developments in the Early Commentarial Tradition of the Analects

The Eight Commentators Selected by the Collected Explanations Editors

Early History of Collected Explanations and Main Editions

Format and Early History of Elucidation of the Meaning

Zhu Xi's Analects Commentaries

Liu Baonan's Writings

Works Cited

Index to Analects Passages

General Index

Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-443) and indexes.

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ISBN:

9781684173907

1684173906

OCLC:

648318105

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684173907 DOI