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Individualism in early China : human agency and the self in thought and politics /

""Contrary to common claims about the absence of individualism in early China and its supposed reification in 'the West, ' both the Western and Chinese traditions have historically been characterized by diverse and constantly evolving attitudes toward the individual. This book se...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brindley, Erica, 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Individual agency and universal, centralized authority in early Mohist writings
  • Centralizing control: the politics of bodily conformism
  • Decentralizing control and naturalizing cosmic agency: bodily conformism and individualism
  • Two prongs of the debate: bodily agencies vs. Claims for institutional controls
  • Servants of the self and empire: institutionally controlled individualism at the dawn of a new era.