Book ID: CBB259419345

Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (2010)

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This book, inspired by the sociologist Gnnter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by sonic of the world's leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with their counterpart traditions in Europe. In so doing it also subtly reshapes our understanding of premodern European concepts of the natural world. The domains covered principally include philosophy, language, poetry, science, and mathematics, and their relations with society, technology, and politics. By analyzing the frequent partial similarities between these great two cultural areas in the context of their overall contrasts, it points the way for the first tune to defining accurately the differences that have been critical for world history.

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Review Florence Bretelle-Establet (2016) Review of "Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective". East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 315-319). unapi

Review Florence Bretelle-Establet (2016) Review of "Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective". East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 315-319). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Heiner Roetz (2010) On Nature and Culture in Zhou China. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 198-219). unapi

Chapter Günter Dux (2010) The Genesis of Philosophy in the History of Mind: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Classical Greece and China. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 102-135). unapi

Chapter Benjamin A. Elman (2010) The Investigation of Things (gewu 格 物), Natural Studies (gezhixue 格 致 學), and Evidental Studies (kaozhengxue 考 證 學) Gewu in Late Imperial China, 1600-1800. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 368-399). unapi

Chapter Karine Chemla (2010) Mathematics, Nature and Cosmological Inquiry in Traditional China. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 255-284). unapi

Chapter Mark Elvin (2010) Introductions. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 56-101). unapi

Chapter Mark Elvin (2010) Overview. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 1-55). unapi

Chapter Wolfgang Kubin (2010) The Myriad Things: Random Thoughts on Nature in China and the West. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 516-525). unapi

Chapter Hans Ulrich Vogel (2010) "That Which Soaks and Descends Becomes Salty": The Concept of Nature in Traditional Chinese Salt Production. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 469-515). unapi

Chapter Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (2010) On the Relationship Between Man and Nature in China. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 526-542). unapi

Chapter John B. Henderson (2010) Cosmology And Concepts Of Nature In Traditional China. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 181-197). unapi

Chapter Georges Métailié (2010) Concepts of Nature in Traditional Chinese Materia Medica and Botany (sixteenth to Seventeenth Century). In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 345-367). unapi

Chapter Mark Elvin (2010) Personal Luck: Why Premodern China—Probably— Did Not Develop Probalistic Thinking. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 400-468). unapi

Chapter Fu Daiwie (2010) When Shen Gua Encountered the 'Natural World': A Preliminary Discussion on the Mengxi Bitan and the Concept of Nature. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 285-309). unapi

Chapter Christoph Harbsmeier (2010) Towards a Conceptual History of Some Concepts of Nature in Classical Chinese: Zì Rán 自 然 and Zì Rán Zhī Lĭ 自 然 之 理. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 220-254). unapi

Chapter Achim Mittag (2010) Becoming Acquainted with Nature from the Odes: Sidelights on the Study of the Flora and Fauna in Song Dynasty's Shijing 詩 經 (classic of Odes) Scholarship. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 310-344). unapi

Chapter Julián Pacho (2010) The Universe As Cosmos: On The Ontology Of The Greek World-Image. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 136-160). unapi

Chapter Ulrich Wenzel (2010) The Notion of Causality in Aristotle and the Medieval Philosophy of Nature: A Developmental Approach. In: Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective (pp. 161-180). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Cohen, H. Floris
Schaefer, Dagmar
Kubin, Wolfgang
Yuan, Jinmei
Wang, Xiaohu
Sun, Chengsheng
Concepts
East Asia, civilization and culture
Cross-cultural comparison
Western world, civilization and culture
Philosophy
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Aristotelianism
Time Periods
Premodern
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
Medieval
Ancient
17th century
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
Places
China
Europe
Greece
Japan
Asia
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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