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Book SynopsisEdited by Michael Hunter and Martin Kern and featuring contributions by preeminent scholars of early China, Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship critically examines the long-standing debates surrounding the history of the Analects, for two millennia considered the most authoritative source of the teachings of Confucius (551–479 BCE). Unlike most previous scholarship, it does not take the traditional view of the Analects’ origins as given. Instead, it explores the validity and the implications of recent revisionist critiques from historical, philosophical, and literary perspectives, and further draws on recently discovered ancient manuscripts and new technological advances in the Digital Humanities. As such, it opens up new ways for productive engagement with the text. Contributors: Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Paul van Els, Robert Eno, Joachim Gentz, Paul R. Goldin, Michael Hunter, Martin Kern, Esther Klein, John Makeham, Matthias L. Richter.
Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction Michael Hunter and Martin Kern 1 A Critical Overview of Some Contemporary Chinese Perspectives on the Composition and Date of Lunyu John Makeham 2 The Lunyuas an Accretion Text Robert Eno 3 The Lunyuas Western Han Text Michael Hunter 4 Confucius and His Disciples in the Lunyu: The Basis for the Traditional View Paul R. Goldin 5 The Lunyu, a Homeless Dog in Intellectual History: On the Dating of Discourses on Confucius’s Success and Failure Joachim Gentz 6 Confucius’s Sayings Entombed: On Two Han Dynasty Bamboo LunyuManuscripts Paul van Els 7 Manuscript Formats and Textual Structure in Early China Matthias L. Richter 8 Interlocutor Collections, the Lunyu, and Proto-Lunyu Texts Mark Csikszentmihalyi 9 Sima Qian’s Kongzi and the Western Han Lunyu Esther Klein 10 Kongzi as Author in the Han Martin Kern Index >
