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The importance of the rich corpus of "Masters Literature" that
developed in early China since the fifth century BCE has long been
recognized. But just what are these texts? Scholars have often
approached them as philosophy, but these writings have also been
studied as literature, history, and anthropological, religious, and
paleographic records. How should we translate these texts for our
times? This book explores these questions through close readings of
seven examples of Masters Literature and asks what proponents of a
"Chinese philosophy" gained by creating a Chinese equivalent of
philosophy and what we might gain by approaching these texts
through other disciplines, questions, and concerns. What happens
when we remove the accrued disciplinary and conceptual baggage from
the Masters Texts? What neglected problems, concepts, and
strategies come to light? And can those concepts and strategies
help us see the history of philosophy in a different light and
engender new approaches to philosophical and intellectual inquiry?
By historicizing the notion of Chinese philosophy, we can, the
author contends, answer not only the question of whether there is a
Chinese philosophy but also the more interesting question of the
future of philosophical thought around the world.
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