Ames: Focusing the Familiar: Pa by Ames, Roger T.
Ames: Focusing the Familiar: Pa by Ames, Roger T.

Ames: Focusing the Familiar: Pa

The Zhongyong--translated here as Focusing the Familiar--has been regarded as a document of enormous wisdom for more...
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Ames: Focusing the Familiar: Pa by Ames, Roger T.

Ames: Focusing the Familiar: Pa

CHF 42.57
Ames: Focusing the Familiar: Pa by Ames, Roger T.

Ames: Focusing the Familiar: Pa

CHF 42.57
Author: Roger T. Ames
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Zhongyong--translated here as Focusing the Familiar--has been regarded as a document of enormous wisdom for more than two millennia and is one of Confucianism's most sacred and seminal texts. It achieved truly canonical preeminence when it became one of the Four Books compiled and annotated by the Southern Song dynasty philosopher Zhu Xi (1130-1200). Within the compass of world literature, the influence of these books (Analects of Confucius, Great Learning, Zhongyong, and Mencius) on the Sinitic world of East Asia has been no less than the Bible and the Qu'ran on Western civilization.

With this new translation David Hall and Roger Ames provide a distinctly philosophical interpretation of the Zhongyong, remaining attentive to the semantic and conceptual nuances of the text to account for its central place within classical Chinese literature. They present the text in such a way as to provide Western philosophers and other intellectuals access to a set of interpretations and arguments that offer new insights into issues and concerns common to both Chinese and Western thinkers. In addition to the annotated translation, a glossary of terms gives in concise form important senses of the terms that play a key role in the argument of the Zhongyong. An appendix addresses some of the more technical issues relevant to the understanding of both the history of the text and the history of its English translations. Here the translators introduce readers to the best contemporary textual studies of the Zhongyong and make use of the most recent archaeological discoveries in China to place the work within its own intellectual context.

Author: Roger T. Ames
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 08/31/2001
Pages: 182
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.08w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780824824600

About the Author
Roger T. Ames (Editor, Translator) Roger T. Ames is professor of philosophy at the University of Hawai'i and editor of Philosophy East and West.


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