The dynamics of masters literature
Subtitle: early Chinese thought from Confucius to Han Feizi
By: Wiebke Denecke
Publisher: Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute; Distributed by Harvard University Press; Harvard University Press; Harvard University Asia Center
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780674056091
Description: This book explores readings of seven examples of Masters Literature and asks what proponents of a "Chinese philosophy" gained by creating a Chinese equivalent of philosophy and what we might gain by approaching these texts through other disciplines, questions, and concerns.

By historicizing the notion of Chinese philosophy, we can, the author contends, answer not only the question of whether there is a Chinese philosophy but also the more interesting question of the future of philosophical thought around the world. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Chinese philosophy and the translation of disciplines; title: The faces of masters literature until the Eastern Han; title: Scenes of instruction and master bodies in the Analects; title: From scenes of instruction to scenes of construction: Mozi; title: Interiority, human nature, and exegesis in Mencius; title: Authorship, human nature, and persuasion in Xunzi; title: The race for precedence: polemics and the vacuum of traditions in Laozi; title: Zhuangzi and the art of negation; title: The self-regulating state, paranoia, and rhetoric in Han Feizi; title: Epilogue: a future for masters literature and Chinese philosophy.