Reading the Analects Today

Zehou Li, Maija Bell Samei

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State University of New York Press
01 June 2025

Asian history; Oriental & Indian philosophy; Ethics & moral philosophy; Oriental religions; Confucianism

Series: SUNY series, Translating China

One of China's most prominent contemporary philosophers reads and comments on one of the central texts in the Chinese philosophical tradition.

In this book, one of contemporary China's most prominent philosophers, Li Zehou, explores one of the central texts in the Chinese philosophical tradition, the Analects of Confucius. While the book provides an introduction to the Analects itself and to Confucianism in general, it also serves as an introduction to Li's own thought, particularly the ways in which he regarded the Confucian tradition as relevant to postrevolutionary contemporary China. Key topics include the role of Confucianism in the Chinese tradition and in contemporary China; Confucianism's quasi-religious, quasi-philosophical character; Li's views on emotion, morality, and fate in Confucianism; and his call for a separation of public social morality from private religious morality in modern China. Translated here by Maija Bell Samei, Reading the ""Analects"" Today is among the most accessible of Li Zehou's works and will be of interest not only to philosophers but to scholars and students of both modern and traditional Chinese intellectual, social, and religious history.

By: Zehou Li
Translated by: Maija Bell Samei
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 771g
ISBN: 9798855802801
Series: SUNY series, Translating China
Pages: 482
Publication Date: 01 June 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Translator's Preface Author's Prefaces (2014 and 2018) Introduction The Analects Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 Book 5 Book 6 Book 7 Book 8 Book 9 Book 10 Book 11 Book 12 Book 13 Book 14 Book 15 Book 16 Book 17 Book 18 Book 19 Book 20 Afterword (1996 and 1998) Notes Index

Li Zehou (1930–2021) was a philosopher who taught in both China and the United States. His many books include A History of Classical Chinese Thought and The Path of Beauty: A Study of Chinese Aesthetics. Maija Bell Samei is the author of Gendered Persona and Poetic Voice: The Abandoned Woman in Early Chinese Song Lyrics and the translator of The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition, also by Li Zehou, and Seven Lectures on Wang Guowei's Renjian Cihua, by Florence Chia-ying Yeh.

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Reading the Analects Today

Zehou Li, Maija Bell Samei

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