Michael J. Puett is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Humanities at Harvard University.
As early as the Warring States period in China (fourth through third centuries b.c.), debates arose concerning how and under what circumstances new institutions could be formed and legitimated. But the debates quickly encompassed more than just legitimation. Larger issues came to the fore: Can a sage innovate? If so, under what conditions? Where did human culture originally come from? Was it created by human sages? Is it therefore an artificial fabrication, or was it based in part on natural patterns? Is it possible for new sages to emerge who could create something better?
This book studies these debates from the Warring States period to the early Han (second century b.c.), analyzing the texts in detail and tracing the historical consequences of the various positions that emerged. It also examines the time’s conflicting narratives about the origin of the state and how these narratives and ideas were manipulated for ideological purposes during the formation of the first empires.
While tracing debates over the question of innovation in early China, the author engages such questions as the prevailing notions concerning artifice and creation. This is of special importance because early China is often described as a civilization that assumed continuity between nature and culture, and hence had no notion of culture as a fabrication, no notion that the sages did anything other than imitate the natural world. The author concludes that such views were not assumptions at all. The ideas that human culture is merely part of the natural world, and that true sages never created anything but instead replicated natural patterns arose at a certain moment, then came to prominence only at the end of a lengthy debate.
文 / 楊起予(清華大學新雅書院、《作與不作》譯者) 我們長時間睏惑於如何翻譯普鳴(Michael Puett)The Ambivalence of Creation 一書的書名。一天,甘陽老師提議將其譯成“作與不作”。我和幾位同學在收到消息時,都不由自主地把“作”字讀成瞭一聲。可普鳴老師卻很喜歡。原...
評分文 / 楊起予(清華大學新雅書院、《作與不作》譯者) 我們長時間睏惑於如何翻譯普鳴(Michael Puett)The Ambivalence of Creation 一書的書名。一天,甘陽老師提議將其譯成“作與不作”。我和幾位同學在收到消息時,都不由自主地把“作”字讀成瞭一聲。可普鳴老師卻很喜歡。原...
評分哈佛大學東亞係教授普鳴(Michael Puett)所著《作與不作》(The Ambivalence of Creation)以早期中國思想為研究對象,全書分為五個獨立的章節,沿著曆史發展的時間綫索,意圖重新審視自晚商而至西漢之間中國古典文化的基本問題及其處理方式。在這一過程中,普鳴嘗試重組那些...
評分讀美國學者普鳴的這本《作與不作:早期中國對創新與技藝問題的論辯》,我用瞭很長的時間。說起讀這本書的最初動機,其實是想要觀照一個十分具體的當代文學問題,汪曾祺在比較長時間的文學書寫中對於技藝和勞動、手工業者、小生産者、社會分工的理解。這一寫作個案覆蓋瞭一位作...
評分讀美國學者普鳴的這本《作與不作:早期中國對創新與技藝問題的論辯》,我用瞭很長的時間。說起讀這本書的最初動機,其實是想要觀照一個十分具體的當代文學問題,汪曾祺在比較長時間的文學書寫中對於技藝和勞動、手工業者、小生産者、社會分工的理解。這一寫作個案覆蓋瞭一位作...
隻是個browser 不是個page-turner 可能這不是我最感興趣的地方吧
评分隻是個browser 不是個page-turner 可能這不是我最感興趣的地方吧
评分第二、三章很好。
评分在大四忙著申請時必修的學術翻譯課素材…要死不活翻瞭一學期…sad 讓我這樣痛苦卻必須一字一句讀的書…
评分第二、三章很好。
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