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題 名 | Book Review: Chun-chieh Huang, «Humanism in East Asian Confucian Contexts (東亞儒家脈絡中的人文精神)» (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2010) |
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作 者 | Ivanhoe, Philip J.; Ivanhoe, Philip J.; | 書刊名 | 臺灣東亞文明研究學刊 |
卷 期 | 8:1=15 2011.06[民100.06] |
頁 次 | 頁337-354 |
分類號 | 113 |
關鍵詞 | 東亞; 儒家; 人文精神; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | There are very few scholars in the world today capable of writing informed and sophisticated work on East Asian Confucianism as found in its many expressions through history and across the cultures of China, Korea, and Japan, and none who can do so with the authority and insight of Professor Huang Chun- chieh. Humanism in East Asian Confucian Contexts collects, refines, and extends a set of essays and themes representing Huang's research in recent years and focuses these through the lens of seeking to define a distinctive East Asian Confucian form of humanism. One of the greatest virtues of this work is Huang's ability to paint in both broad strokes and fine detail: he makes and defends large claims about the nature of East Asian Confucianism and how it differs from other forms of humanism, but he also provides precise and elegant detail that both offers evidence for and elaborates upon the larger claims he makes. In presenting his case, Huang draws upon a magisterial command of original sources and secondary literature in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese as well as secondary sources in English. While he pays careful attention to historical detail and offers a number of fascinating observations about the nature of East Asian historical writing, this book is a synthetic and constructive piece of scholarship: he fashions a particular conception of what East Asian Confucian humanism is or can be. My remarks take the view he offers as a contemporary interpretation of Confucianism that draws upon and together a broad variety of different expressions of the tradition and defends a set of characteristic themes, concerns, and values as the core features of a distinctive form of East Asian humanism. I will review the general structure of Huang's presentation and explore several of his key claims in more detail. Along the way, I will offer critical appraisal and additional comments or suggestions on parts of Huang's analysis. |
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