Format:
xix, 223 p. :
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maps ;
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24 cm.
ISBN:
962-996-222-5
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-219) and index. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-219) and index -- Based on papers presented at an international conference held in Taipei, Taiwan in May 2000. - Angaben zum Inhalt: "Time" is a basic subject to humanistic enquiry and understanding Chinese notions of time in their own terms and comparatively is an important endeavour. This collection of essays engages Chinese ways of conceiving “time” from a variety of perspectives: philosophical, historical, and anthropological being the most salient. Although some of the texts and issues discussed in this book are widely regarded as rather metaphysical, such as the Yijing (Book of Changes) and the "dualism and monism of change", even here a healthy respect for the concrete, the particular, and the lived experience of individuals in history is preserved. As the great eighteenth-century philosopher of history, Zhang Xuecheng, taught, the Dao (the Way) could hardly be approached or apprehended except by way of concrete things. The subject matter therefore straddles several disciplines, and individual essays will be of interest to different clusters of scholars. It is also a stimulating boo
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Inhalt: Preface / Chun-chieh Huang -- Introduction / Chun-chieh Huang and John B. Henderson -- SETTING THE STAGE: 1. Making Sense of Time: Towards a Universal Typology of Conceptual Foundations of Historical Consciousness / Jörn Rüsen -- 2. "Time" and "Supertime" in Chinese Historical Thinking / Chun-chieh Huang -- Part I: "TIME" IN ANCIENT CHINA: 3. Immanental Human Beings in Transcendent Time: Epistemological Basis of Pristine Chinese Historical Consciousness / Chen Chi-yun -- 4. On the Formation of a Philosophy of Time and History through the Yijing / Liu Shu-hsien -- Part II: "TIME" IN TRADITIONAL CHINA: 5. Premodern Chinese Notions of Astronomical History and Calendrical Time / John B. Henderson -- 6. Time in Wang Fuzhi's Philosophy of History / Chan Wing-cheuk -- 7. Time, History, and Dao: Zhang Xuecheng and Martin Heidegger / Q. Edward Wang -- Part III: "TIME" IN MODERN CHINA: 8. Yan Fu's Conception of Time and Evolution / Ricardo K. S. Mak -- 9. What Continued in History?
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Zeit
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Geschichtsdenken
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Konferenzschrift
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Kongress
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Taipeh (2000)
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Konferenzschrift
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Kongress
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Taipeh (2000)
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Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Huang, Junjie 1946-
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