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While the resonance of Giambattista Vico's hermeneutics for
postcolonialism has long been recognised, a rupture has been
perceived between his intercultural sensibility and the actual
content of his philological investigations, which have often been
criticised as being Eurocentric and philologically spurious. China
is a case in point. In his magnum opus New Science, Vico portrays
China as backward and philosophically primitive compared to Europe.
In this first study dedicated to China in Vico's thought, Daniel
Canaris shows that scholars have been beguiled by Vico's value
judgements of China without considering the function of these value
judgements in his theory of divine providence. This monograph
illustrates that Vico's image of China is best appreciated within
the contemporary theological controversies surrounding the Jesuit
accommodation of Confucianism. Through close examination of Vico's
sources and intellectual context, Canaris argues that by refusing
to consider Confucius as a "filosofo", Vico dismantles the
rationalist premises of the theological accommodation proposed by
the Jesuits and proposes a new functionalist valorisation of
non-Christian religion that anticipates post-colonial critiques of
the Enlightenment.
This book represents the first critical edition and scholarly
annotated translation of a pioneering report on the predicament of
cross-cultural understanding at the dawn of globalization, titled
"A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and
Linghun" ("Resposta breve sobre as Controversias do Xamty, Tien
Xin, Lim hoen"), which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit
missionary Niccolo Longobardo (1565-1654) in the 1620s and
profoundly influenced Enlightenment understandings of Asian
philosophy. The book restores the focus on Longobardo's own
intellectual concerns, while also reproducing and analyzing all the
Chinese-language annotations on the previously unpublished
Portuguese and Latin manuscripts. Moreover, it meticulously
modernizes all romanizations with standard Hanyu pinyin and
identifies, on the basis of archival research, most of Longobardo's
Chinese interlocutors, thus providing new insights into how the
Jesuits networked with Chinese scholars in the late Ming. In this
way, it opens up this seminal text to Sinologists and global
historians exploring Europe's first intellectual exchanges with
China. In addition, the book presents four introductory essays,
written by the editors and two prominent scholars on the Jesuit
China mission. These essays comprehensively reconstruct the
historical and intellectual context of Longobardo's report,
stressing that it cannot be viewed purely as a product of
Sino-European cultural exchange, but also as an outgrowth of both
exegetic debates within Europe and of European experiences across
Asia, especially in Japan. Hence this critical edition will greatly
contribute to a more globalized view of the Jesuit China mission.
This book represents the first critical edition and scholarly
annotated translation of a pioneering report on the predicament of
cross-cultural understanding at the dawn of globalization, titled
"A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and
Linghun" ("Resposta breve sobre as Controversias do Xamty, Tien
Xin, Lim hoen"), which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit
missionary Niccolo Longobardo (1565-1654) in the 1620s and
profoundly influenced Enlightenment understandings of Asian
philosophy. The book restores the focus on Longobardo's own
intellectual concerns, while also reproducing and analyzing all the
Chinese-language annotations on the previously unpublished
Portuguese and Latin manuscripts. Moreover, it meticulously
modernizes all romanizations with standard Hanyu pinyin and
identifies, on the basis of archival research, most of Longobardo's
Chinese interlocutors, thus providing new insights into how the
Jesuits networked with Chinese scholars in the late Ming. In this
way, it opens up this seminal text to Sinologists and global
historians exploring Europe's first intellectual exchanges with
China. In addition, the book presents four introductory essays,
written by the editors and two prominent scholars on the Jesuit
China mission. These essays comprehensively reconstruct the
historical and intellectual context of Longobardo's report,
stressing that it cannot be viewed purely as a product of
Sino-European cultural exchange, but also as an outgrowth of both
exegetic debates within Europe and of European experiences across
Asia, especially in Japan. Hence this critical edition will greatly
contribute to a more globalized view of the Jesuit China mission.
"Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication "offers a
thorough exploration of sex differences in how men and women
communicate, set within the context of sex similarities, offering a
balanced examination of the topic. The contents of this distinctive
volume frame the conversation regarding the extent to which sex
differences are found in social behavior, and emphasize different
theoretical perspectives on the topic. Chapter contributors examine
how sex differences and similarities can be seen in various verbal
and nonverbal communicative behaviors across contexts, and focus on
communication behavior in romantic relationships. The work included
here represents recent research on the topic across various
disciplines, including communication, social psychology, sociology,
linguistics, and organizational behavior, by scholars well-known
for their work in this area.
In this second edition, some chapters present new perspectives on
sex/gender and communication; others present substantially revised
versions of earlier chapters. All chapters have a stronger
theoretical orientation and are based on a wider range of empirical
data than those in the first edition. Readers in communication,
social psychology, relationships, and related fields will find much
of interest in this second edition. The volume will serve as a text
for students in advanced coursework as well as a reference for
practitioners interested in research-based conclusions regarding
sex differences in communicative behavior.
Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication offers a thorough
exploration of sex differences in how men and women communicate,
set within the context of sex similarities, offering a balanced
examination of the topic. The contents of this distinctive volume
frame the conversation regarding the extent to which sex
differences are found in social behavior, and emphasize different
theoretical perspectives on the topic. Chapter contributors examine
how sex differences and similarities can be seen in various verbal
and nonverbal communicative behaviors across contexts, and focus on
communication behavior in romantic relationships. The work included
here represents recent research on the topic across various
disciplines, including communication, social psychology, sociology,
linguistics, and organizational behavior, by scholars well-known
for their work in this area. In this second edition, some chapters
present new perspectives on sex/gender and communication; others
present substantially revised versions of earlier chapters. All
chapters have a stronger theoretical orientation and are based on a
wider range of empirical data than those in the first edition.
Readers in communication, social psychology, relationships, and
related fields will find much of interest in this second edition.
The volume will serve as a text for students in advanced coursework
as well as a reference for practitioners interested in
research-based conclusions regarding sex differences in
communicative behavior.
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