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Intellectual developments in Greece and China : contingency, institutionalization and path dependency / Raymond W. K. Lau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lau, Raymond W. K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectual life.
- Greece--Intellectual life--History.
- Greece.
- China--Intellectual life--History.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (498 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2020]
- Summary:
- This book presents a study of historical sociology and a comparison of ancient Greece's and ancient China's intellectual developments. It provides a special historical-sociological theoretical model, allowing the exploration of how and why Greece's and China's developments followed two different trajectories. This model allows a superior explanation of this phenomenon than previous studies, which all employ the outdated methodology of mono-causal determinism. This work takes the critique of Eurocentric views in comparative studies, pioneered by Joseph Needham in Science and Civilization in China, to a new level of excellence, because, in addition to presenting new empirical findings and dispelling previous misunderstandings, it also provides a sophisticated theoretical analysis. It will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of comparative intellectual studies, sinology, historical sociology, classics, and intellectual history.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Chronology of Greek Thinkers
- Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
- Chronology of Chinese Thinkers
- Glossary
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
- Concluding Remarks
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5275-4856-2
- 1-5275-4703-5
- OCLC:
- 1153842120
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