Aristotle in China: Language, Categories and Translation (Needham Research Institute Studies, Series Number 2) - Softcover

Wardy, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521028477 ISBN 13: 9780521028479

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This book considers the relation between language and thought. Robert Wardy explores this huge topic by analyzing linguistic relativism with reference to a Chinese translation of Aristotle's Categories. He addresses some key questions, such as, do the basic structures of language shape the major thought patterns of its native speakers? Could philosophy be guided and constrained by the language in which it is done? And does Aristotle survive rendition into Chinese intact? Wardy's answers will fascinate philosophers, Sinologists, classicists, linguists and anthropologists, and make a major contribution to the scholarly literature.

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Chinese

Review:

'... we in Chinese studies clearly owe a considerable debt to Robert Wardy, and hope that he will find other examples of cultural intercommunication between the classical tradition of Western philosophy and China with which to beguile our increasingly rare moments of reflection.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521028477
• ISBN 13: 9780521028479
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184