Philosophy on Bamboo - Text and the Production of Meaning in Early China (Hardcover)

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 Gu di n, 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.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Studies in the History of Chinese Texts, 2
Release date:	November 2011
First published:	November 2011
Authors:	Dirk Meyer
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	395
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-20762-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Palaeography Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Promotions
LSN:	90-04-20762-7
Barcode:	9789004207622

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