Textual Patterns and Cosmic Designs in Early China

ISBN-13: 9781032735467 / Twarda / 2024 / 232 str.

Benoit Vermander

Opis

Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, the book offers a novel construal of the textual universe proper to early China writings. 

Spis treści

1: Shaping and Numbering  2: Orbiting the Huainanzi  3: The Zhuangzi’s Inner Chapters: Thinking within and outside Circles  4: Confucius and the Hen-Pheasant  5: The Laozi as a Topological Space

O autorze

Benoît Vermander is professor of religious anthropology at Fudan University (Shanghai) where he also teaches the hermeneutic of Chinese Classics. He heads the Xu-Ricci Dialogue Institute in the same university. His research interests and publications focus on cross-cultural hermeneutic, comparative classics, and Chinese religiosities.