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9780791453148

Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking Through Comparisons

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    9780791453148

  • ISBN10:

    0791453146

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-03-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Author Biography

Roger T. Ames is Professor of Comparative Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i Stephen W. Durrant did his undergraduate work at Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. at the University of Washington. He teaches at the University of Oregon, where he has served as Associate Dean of the Humanities, Chair of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Director of the Center of Asian and Pacific Studies The late David L. Hall spent his teaching career as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. David N. Keightley, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley Michael Nylan, Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley Andrew Plaks, professor of Chinese Literature at Princeton University Michael Puett, a John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Humanities at Harvard University Lisa Raphals is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside Haun Saussy has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Standford University David Schaberg, associate professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles Steven Shankman has taught at Princeton, Columbia, and Harvard, and is currently Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon and Director of the Oregon Humanities Center Anthony C. Yu, Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, The University of Chicago, has taught Religion and Comparative Literature there since 1968 C. H. Wang, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle, and at the National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(14)
Steven Shankman
Stephen W. Durrant
What Has Athens to Do with Alexandria? or Why Sinologists Can't Get Along with(out) Philosophers
15(20)
David L. Hall
No Time Like the Present: The Category of Contemporaneity in Chinese Studies
35(20)
Haun Saussy
Humans and Gods: The Theme of Self-Divinization in Early China and Early Greece
55(20)
Michael Puett
``These Three Come Forth Together, But are Differently Named'': Laozi, Zhuangzi, Plato
75(18)
Steven Shankman
Thinking through Comparisons: Analytical and Narrative Methods for Cultural Understanding
93(18)
Roger T. Ames
Alluding to the Text, or the Context
111(8)
C. H. Wang
Epistemology in Cultural Context: Disguise and Deception in Early China and Early Greece
119(36)
David N. Keightley
The Logic of Signs in Early Chinese Rhetoric
155(32)
David Schaberg
Means and Means: A Comparative Reading of Aristotle's Ethics and the Zhongyong
187(20)
Andrew Plaks
Fatalism, Fate, and Stratagem in China and Greece
207(28)
Lisa Raphals
Cratylus and Xunzi on Names
235(16)
Anthony C. Yu
Golden Spindles and Axes: Elite Women in the Archaemenid and Han Empires
251(32)
Michael Nylan
Creating Tradition: Sima Qian Agonistes?
283(16)
Stephen W. Durrant
List of Contributors 299(4)
Index 303

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