Philosophy on bamboo
text and the production of meaning in early China
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Word Count
98,750 words, Guess
Page Count
395 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivephilosophyonbamb00meye
- ISBN-139789004207622
- ISBN-109004207627
- Library of Congress Control Number2011034520
- OCLC Control Number748330802
and 2 more
- Better World Books9789004207622
- Open LibraryOL25018680M
Classifications
- DDC181/.11
- LCCPL2461.Z7 M467 2012
- LCCB126
Alternate Titles
- Text and the production of meaning in early China
Description
"Scholarship on early Chinese thought has long tended to treat texts as mere repositories of ideas rather than as meaningful objects in their own right. Not only does this approach present an idealised account of China's intellectual past, but it also imposes artificial boundaries between textual and philosophical traditions. As the first study to treat text as a cultural phenomenon during the Warring States period, this book demonstrates the interplay among the material conditions of text and manuscript culture, writing, and thought. Through close readings of philosophical texts excavated at Guōdiàn, it analyses crucial strategies of meaning construction and casts light on the ways in which different communities used texts to philosophical ends. Meyer thus establishes new understandings of the correlation between ideas, their material carrier, and the production of meaning in early China." -- Publisher's description.
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