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Book SynopsisThis book provides a standard reference of the major medieval Jewish philosophers, as well as an eminently readable narrative of the course of medieval Jewish philosophical thought, presented as a response to the spiritual-intellectual challenges facing Judaism in that period. The accounts of Saadia, Bahya, Halevi, Maimonides, and Crescas are among the fullest available in English. Other thinkers discussed in depth include Israeli, Ibn Gabirol, Gersonides, and Albo; the work also includes capsule summaries of Bar Hiyya, Falaquera, Albalag, Duran, Abravanel and others. All of the summaries place the philosophical thought of these important thinkers in the context of the historical challenges and religious concerns of their age.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction PART ONE THE EARLY MASTERS: FROM SAADIA TO HALEVI Chapter One R. Saadia Gaon Chapter Two R. Isaac ben Solomon Israeli Chapter Three R. Baḥya ben Joseph Ibn Pakudah Chapter 4 R. Solomon Ibn Gabirol Chapter Five R. Abraham Bar Ḥiyya Chapter Six R. Judah Halevi PART TWO MAIMONIDES Chapter Seven Maimonides’s Personality & Oeuvre Chapter Eight Maimonides’s Earlier Philosophical Writings—The Introductions to the Mishnah Chapter Nine Maimonides’ Politics, Psychology & Ethics Chapter Ten Maimonides’s Theory of Prophecy Chapter Eleven Foundations of Maimonides’s Theology Chapter Twelve Creation and Providence in Maimonides Chapter Thirteen Summary of Maimonidean Thought PART THREE THE LATER MASTERS: CONTINUATION AND TRANSITION Chapter Fourteen The Maimonidean Controversy Chapter Fifteen Transformations in Aristotelian Philosophy Chapter Sixteen Gersonides Chapter Seventeen R. Ḥasdai Crescas Chapter Eighteen R. Joseph Albo Chapter Nineteen The Turn To Cultural Thought Chapter Twenty From Spain to Italy

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Book SynopsisAryeh Motzkin was an extraordinary thinker and writer. Much of his work appeared in small academic journals despite the fact that it is often quite accessible, even to non-experts. This volume assembles his most important published papers along with several unpublished papers. They all have a single theme: the encounter between the Jewish tradition and philosophy as discovered by Plato and Aristotle. The book’s first group of essays deal with the way medieval Jewish thinkers understood the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. The second group deals with how these same medieval thinkers were themselves interpreted by modern thinkers, beginning with Spinoza. A recurring issue in all the essays is the difficulty inherent in any encounter between philosophia perennis and the changing history of Judaism.Trade Review"I knew Motzkin for sixty years; I valued his gifts and especially his quick wit. I will go so far as to say that in his own way, he knew as well as anyone I have met what it means to be a philosopher." - Stanley Rosen, Boston University

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Book SynopsisValue without Fetish presents the first in-depth English-language study of the influential Japanese economist Uno Kōzō‘s (1897-1977) theory of ‘pure capitalism’ in the light of the method and object of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy. A close analysis of the theories of value, production and reproduction, and crisis in Uno’s central texts from the 1930s to the 1970s reveals his departure from Marx’s central insights about the fetish character of the capitalist mode of production – a departure that Lange shows can be traced back to the failed epistemology of value developed in Uno’s earliest writings. By disavowing the complex relation between value and fetish that structures Marx’s critique, Uno adopts the paradigms of neoclassical theories to present an apology rather than a critique of capitalism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Translations and Transcriptions Part 1 The Method of The Critique of Political Economy 1 Introduction – Marx’s Critique of Fetishism as Method  1.1 The Critique of Fetishism and Uno’s Theory of ‘Pure Capitalism’  1.2 The Aporias of Classical Political Economy  1.3 The Critical Function of Marx’s Labour Theory of Value. Against Some Readings of ‘Form’ in Contemporary Value Form Theory 2 What’s ‘Pure’ about Capitalism? Uno’s Three-Level Method and the Theory of Principles  2.1 The Limits of the Three-Level Method (sandankairon)  2.2 Pure Theory’s X-Axis: The Law of Population  2.3 Pure Theory’s Y-Axis: The Commodification of Labour Power Part 2 The Object of The Critique of Political Economy 3 Uno’s Theory of Value – Value without Fetish (1947–69)  3.1 The Problem of Abstract Labour in Uno’s Theory of Value  3.2 Uno’s Theory of Value: Methodological Individualism and the Fetishism of Use Value  3.3 Uno’s Theory of Money: Baileyan Assumptions  3.4 Uno’s Theory of Capital: M-C-M’ as Pure Form 4 The Principles of Political Economy (1952/1964) in Light of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy  4.1 The Reconstruction of Capital  4.2 The Law of Value as the Law of General Social Equilibrium (Uno)  4.3 Surplus Value and Profit: The ‘Transformation Problem’ in Uno’s Perspective  4.4 The Law of Value as the Law of Crisis (Marx) 5 Uno’s Legacy in Japan and Beyond  5.1 Money vs. Value? The ‘Monetary Approach’ in the Post-Uno School of Value Theory  5.2 The ‘Dialectic of Capital’ as the Apologetic of Capital in the Anglophone Uno School  5.3 The Meaning of Real Subsumption or the Real Subsumption of Meaning: Aspects of Anglophone Uno School Historiographies References Index

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Book SynopsisIdeology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China explores ancient Chinese political thought during the centuries surrounding the formation of the empire in 221 BCE. The individual chapters examine the ideology and practices of legitimation, views of rulership, conceptualizations of ruler-minister relations, economic thought, and the bureaucratic administration of commoners. The contributors analyze the formation of power relations from various angles, ranging from artistic expression to religious ideas, political rhetoric, and administrative action. They demonstrate the interrelatedness of historiography and political ideology and show how the same text served both to strengthen the ruler’s authority and moderate his excesses. Together, the chapters highlight the immense complexity of ancient Chinese political thought, and the deep tensions running within it. Contributors include Scott Cook, Joachim Gentz, Paul R. Goldin, Romain Graziani, Martin Kern, Liu Zehua, Luo Xinhui, Yuri Pines, Roel Sterckx, and Charles Sanft.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii List of Contributors viii Introduction: Ideology and Power in Early China 1 Yuri Pines Part One: The Foundations: Unity, Heaven, and Ancestral Models 1 Representations of Regional Diversity during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty 31 Paul R. Goldin 2 Omens and Politics: The Zhou Concept of the Mandate of Heaven as Seen in the Chengwu Manuscript 49 Luo Xinhui 3 Long Live The King! The Ideology of Power between Ritual and Morality in the Gongyang zhuan 69 Joachim Gentz 4 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the “Canon of Yao” 118 Martin Kern Part Two: Textual Battles: Rulers, Ministers, and the People 5 Monarch and Minister: The Problematic Partnership in the Building of Absolute Monarchy in the Han Feizi 155 Romain Graziani 6 The Changing Role of the Minister in the Warring States: Evidence from the Yanzi chunqiu 181 Scott Cook 7 Ideologies of the Peasant and Merchant in Warring States China 211 Roel Sterckx 8 Population Records from Liye: Ideology in Practice 249 Charles Sanft Epilogue: Ideological Authority in China: Past and Present 9 Political and Intellectual Authority: The Concept of the “Sage-Monarch” and Its Modern Fate 273 Liu Zehua Bibliography 301 Index 337

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Book SynopsisImperial-Time-Order is an engagingly written critical study on a persistent historical way of thinking in modern China. Defined as normalization of unification and moralization of time, Qian suggests, the imperial-time-order signifies a temporal structure of empire that has continued to shape the way modern China developed itself conceptually. Weaving together intellectual debates with literary and media representations of imperial history since the late Qing period, ranging from novels, stage plays, films, to television series, Qian traces the different temporalities of each period and takes “time” as the analytical node by which issues of empire, nation, family, morality, individual and collective subjectivity are constructed and contested.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Romanization and Script List of Illustrations Introduction Part One: The Imperial-Time-Order 1. The Imperial-Time-Order: The Eternal Return of the Chinese Empire Part Two: Time, Unity, and Morality from the Late Qing to Mao’s China 2. Suspended Time: Grounding the Present in the Late Qing 3. Split Time: Enlightenment and its Discontent 4. Continuous Time: Heroes in the ‘Protracted War’ 5. Transitional Time: Defining the ‘People’ and the ‘Nation’ in Mao’s China Part Three: The Return of ‘Empire’ in the post-Mao Period 6. Resurgent Time: The Return of ‘Empire’ in Post-socialist Representation 7. Love or Hate: The First Emperor on the Cinematic Screen 8. The Fascinating Empire: Emperors in Contemporary Novels 9. Tianxia Revisited: Empire and Family on the Television Screen 10. Becoming-Minority: Chinese Characteristics in Minority Historical Fiction Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisText, History, and Philosophy. Abhidharma Across Buddhist Scholastic Traditions discusses Abhidhamma / Abhidharma as a specific exegetical method. In the first part of the volume, the development of the Buddhist argumentative technique is discussed. The second part investigates the importance of the Buddhist rational tradition for the development of Buddhist philosophy. The third part focuses on some peculiar doctrinal issues that resulted from rational Abhidharmic reflections. In this way, an outline of the development of the Abhidharma genre and of Abhidharmic notions and concepts in India, Central Asia, China, and Tibet from the life time of the historical Buddha to the tenth century CE is given. Contributors are: Johannes Bronkhorst, Lance S. Cousins, Bart Dessein, Tamara Ditrich, Bhikkhu Kuala Lumpur Dhammajoti, Dylan Esler, Eric Greene, Goran Kardaš, Jowita Kramer, Chen-kuo Lin, Andrea Schlosser, Ingo Strauch, Weijen Teng and Yao-ming Tsai.Trade Review"In my own evaluation, the most important aspect of this collection is that it addresses an absolutely central issue about the study of Buddhist rational inquiry. The collection examines Buddhist rational inquiry as such, rather than in a context in which the concerns, categories, and concepts of Euro-American philosophy (or psychology) are uncritically assumed as a universal structure into which Buddhist thought is expected to fit. Only since about the beginning of the twenty-first century (a symbolic marker rather than an exact historical one) has the study of Buddhist thought, or as Dessein says “Buddhist 'philosophy' begun to move out of the colonialist mode of viewing Buddhist thought as a resource for pre-existing conversations in Euro-American philosophy. More directly relevant to scholars of religious studies, the same dynamic applies to the treatment of Buddhism as a 'religion'." – Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, in Reading Religion (February 2018)

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Book SynopsisOrigins of Chinese Political Philosophy is the first book in any Western language to explore the composition, language, thought, and early history of the Shangshu (Classic of Documents), one of the pillars of the Chinese textual, intellectual, and political tradition. In examining the text from multiple disciplinary and intellectual perspectives, Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy challenges the traditional accounts of the nature and formation of the Shangshu and its individual chapters. As it analyzes in detail the central ideas and precepts given voice in the text, it further recasts the Shangshu as a collection of dynamic cultural products that expressed and shaped the political and intellectual discourses of different times and communities. Contributors are: Joachim Gentz, Yegor Grebnev, Magnus Ribbing Gren, Michael Hunter, Martin Kern, Maria Khayutina, Robin McNeal, Dirk Meyer, Yuri Pines, Charles Sanft, David Schaberg, Kai Vogelsang.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Martin Kern and Dirk Meyer 1 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the “Canon of Yao” - Martin Kern 2 Competing Voices in the Shangshu - Kai Vogelsang 3 Recontextualization and Memory Production: Debates on Rulership as Reconstructed from “Gu ming” 顧命 - Dirk Meyer 4 One Heaven, One History, One People: Repositioning the Zhou in Royal Addresses to Subdued Enemies in the “Duo shi” 多士 and “Duo fang” 多方 Chapters of the Shangshu and in the “Shang shi” 商誓 Chapter of the Yi Zhoushu - Joachim Gentz 5 The Qinghua “Jinteng” 金縢 Manuscript: What It Does Not Tell Us about the Duke of Zhou - Magnus Ribbing Gren 6 “Shu” Traditions and Text Recomposition: A Reevaluation of “Jinteng” 金縢 and “Zhou Wu Wang you ji” 周武王有疾 - Dirk Meyer 7 The Yi Zhoushu and the Shangshu: The Case of Texts with Speeches - Yegor Grebnev 8 The “Harangues” (Shi 誓) in the Shangshu - Martin Kern 9 Speaking of Documents: Shu Citations in Warring States Texts - David Schaberg 10 A Toiling Monarch? The “Wu yi” 無逸 Chapter Revisited - Yuri Pines 11 Against (Uninformed) Idleness: Situating the Didacticism of “Wu yi” 無逸 - Michael Hunter 12 “Bi shi” 粊誓, Western Zhou Oath Texts, and the Legal Culture of Early China - Maria Khayutina 13 Concepts of Law in the Shangshu - Charles Sanft 14 Spatial Models of the State in Early Chinese Texts: Tribute Networks and the Articulation of Power and Authority in Shangshu “Yu gong” 禹貢 and Yi Zhoushu “Wang hui” 王會 - Robin McNeal Index

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Book SynopsisGuo Qiyong’s edited volume on contemporary Chinese philosophy offers a detailed look at research on Chinese philosophy published from 1949-2009 in Mainland China and Taiwan. The chapters in this volume are broken down into either major themes or time periods in the history of Chinese philosophy. In each chapter after summarizing significant aspects of a particular theme or time period, lists are drawn up of the most important works, along with comments on their individual contributions. This volume allows readers to both familiarize themselves with specific texts and become immersed in the more general philosophical discourse surrounding the history of Chinese philosophy. It provides an in-depth look into serious debates and major discoveries in Chinese language philosophical scholarship from 1949-2009.Table of ContentsTranslators Introduction Introduction: Looking Back and Reflecting on Sixty Years of Research on Chinese Philosophy  Translated by Chad Meyers  1 Two Big Stages and Five Small Stages  2 The Eight Big Fields that Have Been Popular in the Last Thirty Years 1 The Fusion of East and West and the Establishment of Chinese Philosophy as a Discipline in the Early Twentieth Century  Translated by Yuan Ali  1 Wang Guowei, Liang Qichao, and Chinese Philosophy as a Discipline  2 The Paradigm of Hu Shi and Feng Youlan—Under the Influence of Anglo-American Philosophy  3 The Paradigms of Guo Moruo and Hou Wailu—Under the Influence of Marxism 2 The Early Achievements in Research on Chinese Philosophy (1949–1978)  Translated by Chad Meyers  1 Chinese Philosophy under the Direction of Marxism  2 Chinese Philosophy’s Paradigm of the “Two Pairs” and the Corresponding Debate  3 The Initial Academic Achievements of Research in Chinese Philosophy 3 Transformations in the Research on Chinese Philosophy (1978–2009)  Translated by Dan Sarafinas  1 Liberation in Thought and the Shifting Research Paradigm  2 Historical Research and Research in Philosophical Categories  3 Subjectivity of Chinese Philosophy and Paradigm Reconstruction 4 Research on Pre-Qin Philosophy  Translated by C.M. Morrow  1 Confucianism  2 Daoism  3 Mohism  4 The Logicians, Legalists, and Military Strategists 5 Philosophical Research on the Qin-Han and Sui-Tang Periods  Translated by Chad Meyers  1 Philosophical Thought in the Qin-Han  2 Wei-Jin Xuanxue  3 The Collation of Classical Buddhist Texts and the History of Chinese Buddhism  4 Major Buddhist Schools  5 The Collation of Daoist Texts and the History of Chinese Daoism  6 Daoist Schools  7 Sui-Tang Confucianism and School of Confucian Classics 6 Research on Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism  Translated by Chad Meyers and Joanna Guzowska  1 Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism  2 The Lu-Wang School of Mind  3 The Qi Tradition and Early Enlightenment 7 Studies in Early Modern and Modern Chinese Philosophy  Translated by Joanna Guzowska  1 Research in Early Modern Philosophy  2 The Sinicization of Marxist Philosophy  3 Modern New Confucianism  4 Liberalism 8 Contemporary Scholarship on Chinese Classics  Translated by Martyna Świątczak  1 Classics and the Study of Classics as the Foundation of Chinese Culture  2 The Study of the Zhou Yi and Its Commentaries since the 1950s  3 Overview of the Scholarship on Shi and Shu in Recent Years 9 A Study of Minorities Philosophy  Translated by Sharon Small  1 The Rise and Controversy of “Minorities Philosophy”  2 Specific Research  3 A Comprehensive History of and Monograph on the Philosophy of All Ethnic Groups  4 Trends 10 Studies on Ancient Philosophy of Nature and the Philosophy of Science and Technology  Translated by Paul J. D’Ambrosio  1 Ancient Philosophy of Nature and Its Characteristics  2 Philosophical Thinking in Ancient Science and Technology  3 On the Relationship between Ancient Philosophy and Science and Technology  4 Ancient Philosophy of Nature and the Research Method of the Philosophy of Science and Technology 11 Studies in Classical Logic and Epistemology  Translated by Joanna Guzowska  1 Research in the History of Chinese Logic  2 Problematik in Chinese Logic  3 Major Developments in the Study of Classical Epistemology  4 Research Paradigms in the Study of Chinese Logic and Classical Epistemology 12 Studies on Ancient Social and Political Philosophy  Translated by Martyna Świątczak  1 Three Stages of Studies on Ancient Political Philosophy  2 Contemporary Research on Ancient Political Philosophy  3 Specific Topics of Scholarship on Ancient Political Philosophy in Recent Years  4 The Methodological Reflection and Prospects of Scholarship on Ancient Political Philosophy  5 Society, Religion, Ethics, and Rites in Ancient China 13 Excavated Bamboo and Silk Texts in Scholarship on the History of Chinese Philosophy  Translated by Robert Carleo III  1 Relevant Excavated Texts of the Last Six Decades  2 Excavated Texts and Scholarship on Classics and Masters Literature Afterword  Guo Qiyong 郭齐勇 Glossary of Historical Texts Glossary of Personal Names

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