James Garrison, "Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy" (SUNY Press, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Confucian Philosopher's Distinctions
Interviewer: It struck me that you characterize some of this a little bit like, just a moment ago, as archaan discussions amongst the confucian philosophers. And it's important to when we're taking up ideas or distinctions, inentions, for instance, that we pay attention to the context in which these distinctions were made. In whether schunze was, in fact, situating his argument in the context of whether human nature is good or bad with menthus or whether he's arguing with the moists who have a very radical view on funeral rites and music.
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