The Analects
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Rich distillation of the timeless precepts of extremely influential Chinese philosopher and social theorist. Includes "Concerning Fundamental Principles," "Concerning Government," "The Eight Dancers: Concerning Manners and Morals," and much more. Footnotes.Publishers WeeklyBecause 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
