Neo-Confucianism was the major philosophical tradition in China for most of the past millennium. This Companion is the first volume to provide a comprehensive introduction, in accessible English, to the Neo-Confucian philosophical thought of representative Chinese thinkers from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries. It provides detailed insights into changing perspectives on key philosophical concepts and their relationship with one ather.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer
ISBN-10
904812929x
ISBN-13
9789048129294
eBay Product ID (ePID)
178329594
Product Key Features
Format
Laminated Cover, Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Philosophy
Dimensions
Weight
2030g
Height
234mm
Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Dordrecht
Spine
28mm
Edited by
John Makeham
Series Part/Volume Number
1
Series Title
Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy
Content Note
Biography
Author Biography
John Makeham teaches in the China Centre at The Australian National University. He is a specialist in Chinese intellectual history with a particular interest in Confucian philosophy. In 2005 he was awarded the Joseph Levenson Book Prize for his monograph, Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects. He is a past President of the Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and is editor of the new monograph series, Modern Chinese Philosophy (Brill). Current research undertakings including editing a volume on the formation of Chinese philosophy as an academic discipline and also preparing an annotated translation of Xiong Shili's Xin Weishi lun (New Treatise on Cognition-only), a seminal text in twentieth-century Chinese philosophy.