Approaching the True Confucius Beyond Sainthood: A Multidimensional Reading of the "Analects"/去圣乃得真孔子 [Chinese]

By 李零 and 新华书店北美网

Peking University's "Classic Reading Course" When We "Encounter Confucius"-How to Read the "Analects", and How to View Confucius? 北大"经典阅读课"：当我们"与孔子相遇"-- 怎样读《论语》，怎样看待孔子？ In "Approaching the True Confucius Beyond Sainthood: A Multidimensional Reading of the Analects", Peking University professor Li Ling provides a concise and essential perspective and methodology for delving into this humanistic classic. Unlike conventional approaches that analyze the text line by line, this book conducts a detailed examination from two dimensions: the characters within "The Analects" and the ideas it contains. The book interprets the content of "The Analects" thematically. The first part, "Figures," offers a detailed introduction to Confucius's life, his disciples, and his assessments of ancient sages as well as contemporary politicians and recluses-constituting the "longitudinal read." The second part, "Ideas," discusses Confucius's political ideals, philosophy of life, moral views, and attitudes toward noble individuals and petty people-forming the "horizontal read." These two sections deepen each other, providing a crucial pathway for interpreting the original classic. Beyond exegesis, this book offers a concise analysis of "The Analects", allowing modern readers to explore the era in which Confucius lived and gain an objective, multidimensional understanding from a parallel perspective. "Approaching the True Confucius Beyond Sainthood: A Multidimensional Reading of the Analects" is the first volume in Li Ling's "Our Classics" series. The remaining three volumes are: - Humans Moving Downward: Laozi as the Supreme Text - The Only Rule: The Philosophy of Struggle in The Art of War - Life and Death Are Predestined, Wealth and Honor Depend on Heaven: The Natural Philosophy of the Book of Changes "The Analects","Laozi", "The Art of War", and "The Book of Changes" are early in origin, concise in length, and more representative of Chinese culture than other ancient texts. They also integrate more readily into world culture, making them the four books that best embody Chinese wisdom in the eyes of modern readers. 如何阅读《论语》，如何认识孔子，北京大学教授李零在《去圣乃得真孔子：〈论语〉纵横读》中，为进入这部人文经典提供了简明、必要的视角与方法。不同于一般逐字逐句解析原文的方式，本书从《论语》中的人物和《论语》中的思想两个维度进行了详细考察。 全书按主题分类阐释《论语》内容，上篇"人物篇"详细介绍了孔子的生平、孔门弟子、孔子对古昔圣贤与当时政客隐士的评价，是为"纵读"；下篇"思想篇"论述了孔子的政治理想、人生观、道德观，以及对君子小人的态度等，是为"横读"。两篇内容互有深入，为解读原典提供了关健路径。本书是在章句之外，对《论语》进行的精要分析，让今天的读者得以考察孔子生活的时代，收获平行视角下的客观、立体认识。 《去圣乃得真孔子：〈论语〉纵横读》是李零"我们的经典"系列的第一本，其余三本为《人往低处走：〈老子〉天下第一》《唯一的规则：〈孙子〉的斗争哲学》《死生有命 富贵在天：〈周易〉的自然哲学》。《论语》《老子》《孙子》《周易》四本书，年代早、篇幅小，比其他古书更能代表中国文化，也更容易融入世界文化，是现代人眼中最能代表中国智慧的&#

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 7807684143
• ISBN13: 9787807684145
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: China National Publications Import & Export C
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 8.0"