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Portraits of Confucius

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Book cover type: Misc
  • ISBN13: 9781350079229
  • Binding: Misc
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  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • Original Price: GBP 395.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 1708 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Eastern

Portraits of Confucius presents a major collection of Western perspectives on Confucius and Confucianism, stretching from the Jesuit missions of the 16th-century to the dawn of modern cross-cultural scholarship in the early 20th-century.

With selections from over 100 figures covering the 1580s to the 1950s, this two-volume work features writing from American and European sources including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Bertrand Russell. Arranged chronologically, they represent methodologies that span philosophy, political science, religious studies, sociology, anthropology, economic theory, linguistics, missionary texts, and works of popular moralism. Together they reveal important ideological trends in Western attitudes toward China--with Confucius becoming positioned at different times as anti-Christian or nearly Christ-like, while Confucianism is interpreted as something positive the West needs to adopt or as something negative that must be opposed.

For scholars and students interested in the life, work and teachings of Confucius and the West's reception of Chinese philosophy, this is an indispensable reference resource.

Kevin DeLapp is Harold E. Fleming Chair of Philosophy at Converse College, USA. His research explores the foundations of morality and he regularly teaches courses in ethics, Greek and Chinese philosophy, logic, aesthetics, and metaphysics. He has published articles in the fields of metaethics, moral psychology, and cross-cultural philosophy, and he is the author of the books Moral Realism (2013), Lying and Truthfulness (2016), and Partial Values: A Comparative Study in the Limits of Objectivity (Forthcoming).

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