The Gongsun Longzi and Other Neglected Texts : : Aligning Philosophical and Philological Perspectives / / ed. by Wolfgang Behr, Lisa Indraccolo, Rafael Suter.

The Gongsun Longzi is often considered the only extant work of the Classical Chinese “School of Names”, an early intellectual tradition (trad. dated to the 4th cent. B.C.) mainly concerned with logic and the philosophy of language. The Gongsun Longzi is a heterogeneous collection of five chapters th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l’Extrême Orient : Im Auftrag der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft - On behalf of the Swiss Asia Society - Au nom de la Société Suisse-Asie , 28
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • The Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ and Other Neglected Texts – Aligning Philosophical and Philological Perspectives: An Introduction
  • I. History
  • Traditions of Scholarship in China
  • 1. The Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ: A Historical Overview
  • 2. Notes on the Relationship between the Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ and the Dialectical Chapters of the Mòzǐ
  • 3. The ‘Discourse on the White Horse’: A Concrete Analytical Philosophy of Language – with a Coda on the Authenticity of the Received Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ
  • II. Philosophy
  • Contemporary Analytic Approaches
  • 4. Reference and Ontology in the Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ
  • 5. How Gōngsūn Lóng’s Double-Reference Thought in His “White Horse Not Horse” Argumentation Can Engage with Fregean and Kripkean Approaches to the Issue of Reference
  • Philosophical Readings of the Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ
  • 6. Place as a Category in the ‘Treatise on Name and Reality’ (Míngshí lùn名實論)
  • 7. A New Interpretation of the Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ’s ‘Zhǐwù lùn’ (Discourse on Pointings and Things) and ‘Míngshí lùn’ (Discourse on Names and Actualities)
  • 8. A New Interpretation of ‘Báimǎlùn’ (Discourse on White and Horse)
  • III. Philology
  • Perspectives on Language and Terminology
  • 9. Logically Significant Words in the Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ
  • 10. Linguistic Affinites of the Yǐnwénzǐ Text in the Light of Basic Corpus Data
  • 11. Gōngsūn Lóng and the Zhuāngzǐ: On Classifying (Declassifying) Things Zhǐ (Qí) Wù Lùn 指〔齊〕物論
  • 12. Buddhist Murmurs? – Another Look at the Composition of the Gōngsūn Lóngzǐ
  • Indices
  • 1. Terms
  • 2. Source Texts
  • 3. Persons