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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.