This book reveals the important value of Confucianism in modern China. It represents a shift in focus in Confucian studies from centering on self-cultivation to encompassing the entire social life. It tries to explicate Confucian concepts from a l...Loe edasi...
Examines performance as a fundamental feature of ritual in early Chinese thought and how performer/spectator relationships influenced early Chinese religious, ethical, and political discourse. Examining early Chinese ritual discourse du...Loe edasi...
Incorporating various perspectives on the Japanese notion of virtue, Alternative Virtues investigates and expands our current understanding of virtue and presents a foundational case study of an alternative approach to virtues....Loe edasi...
In the spring of 2017, U.S.-based Confucian philosopher Stephen C. Angle took part in a series of dialogues with Chinese Confucians. The present book offers translations of those dialogues into English, together with epilogues by the two editors ref...Loe edasi...
It tries to explicate Confucian concepts from a localized perspective, making it clear that Confucian ethics scaffold the foundation of Chinese s...Loe edasi...
Numerous great Chinese thinkers attempted to realise a transcendent ontological foundation in order to live an ideal life informed by the Confucian way. To this end, they sought answers to how the unconditioned foundation could be realised through c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526182661)
This book reconstructs the Confucian account of power in terms of responsibility from historical and normative perspectives. It pays special attention to the liability and active dimensions of Confucian power as responsibility, which undergirds resp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197746974)
Confucian Gods offers an intellectual history of Confucian conceptions of the gods found in the Classics and feasted by the imperial court until the early twentieth century. Thomas Wilson examines court debates surrounding these canonical go...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a fresh exploration of the enduring dialogue between Confucianism and Buddhism, two traditions that have profoundly shaped East Asian thought. Reviving an exchange long neglected in modern scholarship, it proposes a new comparativ...Loe edasi...
Sari: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197830444)
The life of virtue takes place in a field of adversities. It involves not only contingencies that can thwart the virtues but also the horrors and tragedies that can bring to naught even the sturdiest virtue. Persisting in the Good confronts...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197838266)
The Analects of Dasan: A Korean Synthetic Reading is an English translation of Noneo gogeum ju, which includes the translators commentary on Dasans creative ideas and interpretations of the Analects. It not only represents one of the great...Loe edasi...
How, and to what extent, can Confucian political theory and 21st-century critical theory be integrated? In the first sustained exploration of the intersection of critical social theory and Confucianism, a team of respected Chinese p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197834213)
This book offers a philosophical reconstruction of Confucian humility, a virtue deeply rooted in East Asian traditions yet often overlooked or conflated with Western and contemporary notions of modesty and humility. It bridges classical textual anal...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691276465)
The first complete English translation of the Dialogues, a rediscovered companion to the AnalectsLabeled a forgery and ignored for centuries, the Dialogues of Confucius was nevertheless preserved and passed down...Loe edasi...
Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn open up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China. Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary Ch...Loe edasi...
Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn open up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China. Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary Ch...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231214827)
This book explores enduring narratives about Confucius, shedding light on his role as a symbol of cultural ideals and a fulcrum of ideological debates across eras. Our ideas about Confucius come from the stories told about him. He often appea...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231214834)
The volume consists of three parts: 1) the biography of Confucius (The Hereditary Family of Confucius) in Sima Qians Records of the Grand Historian; 2) a selection of anecdotes about Confucius from Warring States, Han, and Six Dynasties; and 3) t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781316515303)
Liang Cai harnesses newly excavated manuscripts and techniques from the digital humanities to reveal how early Chinese empires criminalized the innocent while exonerating actual offenders. Paradoxically driven by the quest for a crime-free utopia, t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009605823)
Political meritocracy allocates power by virtue and competence. This monograph critiques three models: epistocracy (competence-based voting), Confucian meritocracy (non-democratic), and democratic meritocracy (reformed elections). It concludes the c...Loe edasi...
Political meritocracy allocates power by virtue and competence. This monograph critiques three models: epistocracy (competence-based voting), Confucian meritocracy (non-democratic), and democratic meritocracy (reformed elections). It concludes the c...Loe edasi...
This book provides an ambitious, timely, and comprehensive treatment of Israel-Taiwan relations, presenting a valuable historical and political exploration of a niche but increasingly relevant bilateral relationship in contemporary international a...Loe edasi...
This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for living well-lived lives. It draws on Eastern and Western philosophical and ethical traditions to formulate and address key issu...Loe edasi...
A bold and rigorous reexamination of transcendence—uniting religion, theology, philosophy, and science—while bridging Confucian and Christian thought to explore the origins of the world and human destiny Debating Transcendence ...Loe edasi...
Sari: Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9781531512088)
A bold and rigorous reexamination of transcendence—uniting religion, theology, philosophy and science—while bridging Confucian and Christian thought to explore the origins of the world and human destiny. Debat...Loe edasi...
Spanning antiquity until the present, Zhao Lu analyses the eclectic and fictitious representations of Confucius that have been widely celebrated by communities of people throughout history.While mainstream scholarship...Loe edasi...
This book investigates the importance of spirituality in moral life. The author claims that modern secular morality suffers from a lack of spirituality and argues that a solution to this problem can be found in tradition. This book...Loe edasi...
This book provides a comprehensive and multi-level review of the development and evolution of Confucian philosophy. It is the lecture scrip...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009614719)
Reflecting South Koreas religious diversity, some of the new religions have Buddhist roots, some have Christian origins, some draw on Confucian beliefs and practices, and some have emerged from Indigenous religious traditions such as shamanism. Thi...Loe edasi...
Claimed by some to have been compiled by Confucius in the 5th century BCE, the Book of Songs is an ancient anthology of Chinese poetry. Produced using traditional Chinese bookbinding techniques, this newly-translated edition is a selected anthology...Loe edasi...
This book reveals the important value of Confucianism in modern China. It represents a shift in focus in Confucian studies from centering on self-cultivation to encompassing the entire social life. It tries to explicate Confucian concepts from a l...Loe edasi...
Examines performance as a fundamental feature of ritual in early Chinese thought and how performer/spectator relationships influenced early Chinese religious, ethical, and political discourse. Examining early Chinese ritual discourse du...Loe edasi...
Incorporating various perspectives on the Japanese notion of virtue, Alternative Virtues investigates and expands our current understanding of virtue and presents a foundational case study of an alternative approach to virtues....Loe edasi...
In the spring of 2017, U.S.-based Confucian philosopher Stephen C. Angle took part in a series of dialogues with Chinese Confucians. The present book offers translations of those dialogues into English, together with epilogues by the two editors ref...Loe edasi...
It tries to explicate Confucian concepts from a localized perspective, making it clear that Confucian ethics scaffold the foundation of Chinese s...Loe edasi...
Numerous great Chinese thinkers attempted to realise a transcendent ontological foundation in order to live an ideal life informed by the Confucian way. To this end, they sought answers to how the unconditioned foundation could be realised through c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824899356)
Scholars have long debated the relationship between Buddhist monks and Confucian literati during the late Chosn (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries), when the Korean state adopted anti-Buddhist policies. On the one hand, it is understood that liter...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526182661)
This book reconstructs the Confucian account of power in terms of responsibility from historical and normative perspectives. It pays special attention to the liability and active dimensions of Confucian power as responsibility, which undergirds resp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197746974)
Confucian Gods offers an intellectual history of Confucian conceptions of the gods found in the Classics and feasted by the imperial court until the early twentieth century. Thomas Wilson examines court debates surrounding these canonical go...Loe edasi...
This volume offers a fresh exploration of the enduring dialogue between Confucianism and Buddhism, two traditions that have profoundly shaped East Asian thought. Reviving an exchange long neglected in modern scholarship, it proposes a new comparativ...Loe edasi...
Sari: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197830444)
The life of virtue takes place in a field of adversities. It involves not only contingencies that can thwart the virtues but also the horrors and tragedies that can bring to naught even the sturdiest virtue. Persisting in the Good confronts...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197838266)
The Analects of Dasan: A Korean Synthetic Reading is an English translation of Noneo gogeum ju, which includes the translators commentary on Dasans creative ideas and interpretations of the Analects. It not only represents one of the great...Loe edasi...
Intended as a resource for those interested in studying the development and core characteristics of Korean Confucian philosophy, this volume provides accurate and philosophically astute translations from the writings of eight important and influenti...Loe edasi...
How, and to what extent, can Confucian political theory and 21st-century critical theory be integrated? In the first sustained exploration of the intersection of critical social theory and Confucianism, a team of respected Chinese p...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197834213)
This book offers a philosophical reconstruction of Confucian humility, a virtue deeply rooted in East Asian traditions yet often overlooked or conflated with Western and contemporary notions of modesty and humility. It bridges classical textual anal...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691276465)
The first complete English translation of the Dialogues, a rediscovered companion to the AnalectsLabeled a forgery and ignored for centuries, the Dialogues of Confucius was nevertheless preserved and passed down...Loe edasi...
Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn open up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China. Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary Ch...Loe edasi...
Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn open up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China. Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary Ch...Loe edasi...
