The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought by Michael Hunter - 9780231201223

The Poetics of Early Chinese ThoughtHow the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition\nAuthor(s): Michael Hunter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231201223, 978-0231201223\nSynopsis\nThe modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other so-called Masters of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this approach neglects the far more central role of poetry, and the Shijing (Classic of Poetry) in particular, in the formation of the philosophical tradition. \n\nThrough a new reading of its ideology and poetics, Hunter reestablishes the Shijing as a work of major intellectual-historical significance. The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought demonstrates how Shi poetry weaves a vision of society united at every level by the innate and universal impulse to come home. The Shi immersed early thinkers in a world of movement and .