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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shankman, Steven
• Durrant, Stephen

Titel

The siren and the sage : knowledge and wisdom in ancient Greece and China

Ort / Verlag

London [u.a.] : Cassell

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

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• Inhaltsverzeichnis

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• Inhalt: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Intimations of intentionality: the Classic of Poetry and the Odyssey: 1. Poetry and the experience of participation -- 2. Participation in family and in society: China; Greece -- 3. Participation in the natural world; Nature and nature imagery in the Classic of Poetry; A simile from the Odyssey and Classic of Poetry 23: views of nature; Nature and nature imagery in the Odyssey: between meadows; Nature and the feminine: the Odyssey; Nature and the feminine: the Classic of Poetry -- Pt. II. Before and after philosophy: Thucydides and Sima Qian: 1. History and tradition; Sima Qian and his predecessors; Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides -- 2. The structures of written history; Records of the Historian; The tragic structure of Thucydides' report -- 3. The tempest of participation: Sima Qian's portrayal of his own era -- 4. Thucydides' tragic quest for objectivity and the historian's irrepressible "I" -- Pt. III. The philosopher, the sage, and the experience of participation: 1. Contexts for the emergence of the sage and the philosopher; The emergence of the sage; The emergence of the philosopher -- 2. From poetry to philosophy; Confucius and the Classic of Poetry; The reduction of poetry to depicting the "ten thousand things" and Plato's critique -- 3. The sage, the philosopher, and the recovery of the participatory dimension; Confucius and participation in society; Laozi's return to the Dao; Zhuangzi's participationist response to Huizi's intentionalism; Plato's Symposium, Euripides' Bacchae, and noetic participation -- Afterwords -- Bibliography -- Index.