Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship (Studies in the History of Chinese Texts, 11)

Edited by Michael Hunter and Martin Kern and featuring contributions by preeminent scholars of early China, Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship critically examines the long-standing debates surrounding the history of the Analects, for two millennia considered the most authoritative source of the teachings of Confucius (551–479 BCE). Unlike most previous scholarship, it does not take the traditional view of the Analects’ origins as given. Instead, it explores the validity and the implications of recent revisionist critiques from historical, philosophical, and literary perspectives, and further draws on recently discovered ancient manuscripts and new technological advances in the Digital Humanities. As such, it opens up new ways for productive engagement with the text.
Contributors: Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Paul van Els, Robert Eno, Joachim Gentz, Paul R. Goldin, Michael Hunter, Martin Kern, Esther Klein, John Makeham, Matthias L. Richter.

Michael Hunter, Ph.D. (2012), Princeton University, is an Associate Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale University. His 2017 monograph, Confucius Beyond the Analects (Brill), explores the breadth and history of early Confucius literature.

Martin Kern is the Greg (‘84) and Joanna (P13) Zeluck Professor in Asian Studies and Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He publishes widely on the textual, ritual, and political culture of early China.