Dao and Sign in History : Daoist Arche-Semiotics in Ancient and Medieval China
by
Daniel Fried
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
ISBN-10
1438471920
ISBN-13
9781438471921
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Imprint
State University of New York Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 2nd, 2019
Print length
334 Pages
Weight
508 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.30 x 2.20 cms
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Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.
From its earliest origins in the Dao De Jing, Daoism has been known as a movement that is skeptical of the ability of language to fully express the truth. While many scholars have compared the earliest works of Daoism to language-skeptical movements in twentieth-century European philosophy and have debated to what degree early Daoism does or does not resemble these recent movements, Daniel Fried breaks new ground by examining a much broader array of Daoist materials from ancient and medieval China and showing how these works influenced ideas about language in medieval religion, literature, and politics. Through an extended comparison with a broad sample of European philosophical works, the book explores how ideas about language grow out of a given historical moment and advances a larger argument about how philosophical and religious ideas cannot be divided into "content" and "context."
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