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Chinese Philosophy of History: From Ancient Confucianism to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Chinese Philosophy of History: From Ancient Confucianism to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Rogacz, Dawid

Paperback

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies

PhilosophyChinese History

ISBN10: 1350215341
ISBN13: 9781350215344
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Apr 21 2022
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Challenging the Eurocentric misconception that the philosophy of history is a Western invention, this book reconstructs Chinese thought and offers the first systematic treatment of classical Chinese philosophy of history.

Dawid Rogacz charts the development from pre-imperial Confucian philosophy of history, the Warring States period and the Han dynasty through to the neo-Confucian philosophy of the Tang and Song era and finally to the Ming and Qing dynasties. Revealing underexplored areas of Chinese thought, he provides Western readers with new insight into original texts and the ideas of over 40 Chinese philosophers, including Mencius, Shang Yang, Dong Zhongshu, Wang Chong, Liu Zongyuan, Shao Yong, Li Zhi, Wang Fuzhi and Zhang Xuecheng. This vast interpretive body is compared with the main premises of Western philosophy of history in order to open new lines of inquiry and directions for comparative study.

Clarifying key ideas in the Chinese tradition that have been misrepresented or shoehorned to fit Western definitions, Rogacz offers an important reconsideration of how Chinese philosophers have understood history.

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