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Mind and Body in Early China: Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism

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Mind and Body in Early China: Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism - Slingerland, Edward
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Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as a radical "holistic" other, which saw no qualitative difference between mind and body. Drawing on knowledge and techniques from the sciences and digital humanities, Edward Slingerland demonstrates that seeing a difference between mind and body is a psychological universal, and that human sociality would be fundamentally impossible without it. This book has implications for anyone interested in comparative religion, early China, cultural studies, ...

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Mind and Body in Early China: Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism 2018, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190842307

Hardcover