Eirik Lang Harris, "The Shenzi Fragments: A Philosophical Analysis and Translation "
English | ISBN: 0231177666 | 2016 | 200 pages | PDF | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0231177666 | 2016 | 200 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The Shenzi Fragments is the first complete translation in any Western language of the extant work of Shen Dao (350–275 B.C.E.). Though his writings have been recounted and interpreted in many texts, particularly in the work of Xunzi and Han Fei, very few Western scholars have encountered the political philosopher's original, influential formulations. This volume contains both a translation and an analysis of the Shenzi Fragments. It explains their distillation of the potent political theories circulating in China during the Warring States period, along with their seminal relationship to the Taoist and Legalist traditions and the philosophies of the
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