Genealogy of the Way
Download or Read eBook Genealogy of the Way PDF written by Thomas A. Wilson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Thomas A. Wilson |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0804724253 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780804724258 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Genealogy of the Way by : Thomas A. Wilson
Book excerpt: Beginning in the late Southern Sung one sect of Confucianism gradually came to dominate literati culture and, by the Ming dynasty, was canonized as state orthodoxy. This book is a historical and textual critique of the construction of an ideologically exclusionary conception of the Confucian tradition, and how claims to possession of the truth—the Tao—came to serve power.
