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Author(s):	Michael Hunter

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0231201230
Pages:	240	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other so-called Masters of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this approach neglects the far more central role of poetry, and the Shijing (Classic of Poetry) in particular, in the formation of the philosophical tradition.

Through a new reading of its ideology and poetics, Hunter reestablishes the as a work of major intellectual-historical significance. demonstrates how poetry weaves a vision of society united at every level by the innate and universal impulse to come home. The immersed early thinkers in a world of movement and flow in order to teach them that the most powerful current of all was the gravitational pull of a virtuous king, without whom people can never truly feel at home. Hunter traces the profound influence of the ideology across numerous sources of classical Chinese thought, which he recasts as a network centered on the . Reframing the tradition in this way reveals how poetry shaped ancient Chinese thinkers conception of the world and their place within it.

This book offers both a sweeping critique of how classical Chinese thought is commonly understood and a powerful new way of studying it.
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