Essential Analects: Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary
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The Essential Analects offers a representative selection from Edward Slingerland's acclaimed translation of the full work, including passages covering all major themes. An appendix of selected traditional commentaries keyed to each passage provides access to the text and to its reception and interpretation. Also included are a glossary of terms and short biographies of the disciples of Confucius and the traditional commentators cited. Publishers Weekly Because they offer diverse and sometimes diametrically opposite meanings, the words of Chinese classics are as likely to reflect the prejudices of the translator as the are to exhibit scholarly rigor. This volume is no exception. The publisher's biography of Leys calls him "an astringent observer," and such observations are readily apparent in Leys's sometimes bad-tempered and occasionally ill-judged glosses on a thinker whom he clearly believes would have agreed with him that late 20th-century culture is undergoing the same chaotic moral crisis as 6th-century B.C. China. While the translations are often elegant, and Leys's endnotes offer a few telling examinations of the vagaries and subtleties of translating the Analects, Leys is too often diverted from the Analects by barely relevant citations from European writers and his own digs at other translators of Confucius. Furthermore, neither the introduction nor the endnotes adequately place Confucius in historical context, making the book strangely vague about Confucius's impact on his time and people. (Jan.)
MapIntroductionITo Learn, and Then1IIIn Government, the Secret9IIIEight Rows of Dancers19IVOf Villages, Humanity31VKung-yeh Ch'ang41VIJan Yung Is One Who53VIITransmitting Insight, But65VIIISurely T'ai Po79IXThe Master Rarely89XHis Native Village101XIStudies Begin111XIIYen Hui125XIIIAdept Lu137XIVYuan Szu Asked About151XVDuke Ling of Wei169XVIThe House of Chi183XVIIYang Huo193XVIIIThe Lord of Wei205XIXAdept Chang215XXEmperor Yao Said227Notes233Historical Table246Key Terms: An Outline of Confucian Thought247Further Reading251
