The Commentarial Transformation of the Spring and Autumn

The Commentarial Transformation of the Spring and AutumnShows how the text evolved from a non narrative historical record into a Confucian classic. The Spring and Autumn is among the earliest surviving Chinese historical records, covering the period 722479 BCE. It is a curious text: the canonical interpretation claims that it was composed by Confucius and embodies his moral judgments, but this view appears to be contradicted by the brief and dispassionate records themselves. Newell Ann Van Auken addresses

closely linked to notions of beauty

Many of these poems remained unpublished upon Shelley’s death

Training observers and assessing their agreement

Great value for money textbook by two established scholars

Shakespeare’s London 1613 creates a narrative and analysis of this crucial year

Levinas's use of words like "responsibility" and "God" gives some readers reason to dismiss his work as insufficiently attentive to the whispered suspicions of our times

exploring the issues of vanishing traditions along with the subject of assimilation and acculturation

Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism

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He has demonstrated the shortcomings of traditional theories of technology and argued for what he calls "democratic rationalization" where actors intervene in the technological design process to shape it toward their own ends

shaping the ideas of modern philosophy