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Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking through Comparisons

Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking through Comparisons

Shankman, Steven
Durrant, Stephen W.

Paperback

Series: Suny Chinese Philosophy and Culture

PhilosophyChinese HistoryGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 0791453146
ISBN13: 9780791453148
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Feb 21 2002
Pages: 314
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.

This pioneering book compares Chinese and Western thought to offer a bracing and unpredictable cross-cultural conversation. The work contributes to the emerging field of Sino-Hellenic studies, which links two great and influential cultures that, in fact, had virtually no contact during the ancient period. The patterns of thought and the cultural productions of early China and ancient Greece represent two significantly different responses to the myriad problems that human beings confront. Throughout this volume the comparisons between these cultures evince two critical ideas. First, that thinking is itself an inherently comparative activity. Through making comparisons, the familiar becomes strange, and the strange somewhat more familiar. Second, since we think through comparisons, we should think them all the way through. How valid and productive are the comparisons and contrasts made between particular works and different styles of thought that emerged from two different, although contemporaneous, cultural contexts?

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