Reading Primary Sources in Chinese Philosophy
A Guide
$25.49
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
18 February 2027
Summary
This introduction to thinkers, texts, and themes in Chinese philosophy covers sources ranging across roughly 2,000 years.
The guide helps readers engage with one of the world’s earliest philosophical traditions: it discusses texts by the influential philosophers Confucius, Mencius, and Zhuangzi. And it goes beyond them, introducing thinkers well-known in the tradition but less commonly taught in modern Western classrooms: Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming, and Fang Yizhi. The focus throughout the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350552531 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350552534 |
| Author: | Malcolm Keating, Dr Eirik Lang Harris |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 18 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 124g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 138mm x 214mm |
| Series: | Reading Primary Sources in Asian Philosophy |
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Malcolm Keating
Malcolm Keating is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Smith College, USA. His research focuses on philosophy of language and epistemology in early Nyaya and Mimamsa. He is most recently author of Reason in an Uncertain World: Nyaya Philosophers on Argumentation and Living Well (2024) and Classical Sanskrit for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners (2025).
Eirik Lang Harris is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University, USA. His research focuses on ethics and political philosophy in classical China. He is the author of The Shenzi Fragments: A Philosophical Analysis and Translation (2016) and Meritocracy in Early Chinese Political Thought (2026) as well as co-editor of Adventures in Chinese Realism: Classic Philosophy Applied to Contemporary Issues (2022) and Explaining and Illustrating the Laozi: The Earliest Commentaries on the Daodejing (2026).
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