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Anticipating China : thinking through the narratives of Chinese and Western culture / David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, 1995.Description: xxiii, 334 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0791424774
  • 0791424782
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/21921051 20
LOC classification:
  • DS721 .H24 1995
Contents:
Introduction: Anticipating the Argument. 1. Clearing a Path to China. 2. Circles and Squares -- 1. Squaring the Circle. 1. From Chaos to Cosmos. 2. Rest and Permanence. 3. The Watershed: Zeno and the Power of Paradox. 4. Counterdiscourse: Heraclitus and Anaxagoras. 5. From Theoria to Theory. 6. Counterdiscourse: The Sophists. 7. Socrates and Plato: Eros and Its Ironies. 8. Aristotle: Four Beginnings of Thought. 9. Humanitas and the Imago Dei. 10. The Persistence of the Rational Ethos. 11. Counterdiscourse: Challenges to the Rational Ethos -- 2. The Contingency of Culture. 1. The First and Second Problematics. 2. China and the First Problematic. 3. Comparing Comparative Methods. 4. Intercultural Vagueness -- 3. Extending the Circle. 1. Acosmotic "Beginnings" 2. Analogical Discourse in the Confucian Analects. 3. Experiments in Rationalism. 4. The Emergence of Han Thinking. 5. The Dominance of Han Thinking. 6. A Closing Anticipation.
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Introduction: Anticipating the Argument. 1. Clearing a Path to China. 2. Circles and Squares -- 1. Squaring the Circle. 1. From Chaos to Cosmos. 2. Rest and Permanence. 3. The Watershed: Zeno and the Power of Paradox. 4. Counterdiscourse: Heraclitus and Anaxagoras. 5. From Theoria to Theory. 6. Counterdiscourse: The Sophists. 7. Socrates and Plato: Eros and Its Ironies. 8. Aristotle: Four Beginnings of Thought. 9. Humanitas and the Imago Dei. 10. The Persistence of the Rational Ethos. 11. Counterdiscourse: Challenges to the Rational Ethos -- 2. The Contingency of Culture. 1. The First and Second Problematics. 2. China and the First Problematic. 3. Comparing Comparative Methods. 4. Intercultural Vagueness -- 3. Extending the Circle. 1. Acosmotic "Beginnings" 2. Analogical Discourse in the Confucian Analects. 3. Experiments in Rationalism. 4. The Emergence of Han Thinking. 5. The Dominance of Han Thinking. 6. A Closing Anticipation.

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