Genealogy of the Way
| Author | : Thomas A. Wilson |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0804724253 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780804724258 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (258 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Genealogy of the Way by : Thomas A. Wilson
Download or read book Genealogy of the Way written by Thomas A. Wilson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the late Southern Sung one sect of Confucianism gradually came to dominate literati culture and, by the Ming dynasty, was canonized as state orthodoxy. This book is a historical and textual critique of the construction of an ideologically exclusionary conception of the Confucian tradition, and how claims to possession of the truth—the Tao—came to serve power.
