Between Disaster, Punishment, and Blame

The Semantic Field of Guilt in Early Chinese Texts

by Thomas Crone

Book cover: Between Disaster, Punishment, and Blame

Extent: 190 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Anthropology, Asian/Pacific Studies & Religions, Philosophy

Series: Veröffentlichungen des Ostasien-Instituts der Ruhr-Universität, Bochum

Series volume number: 68

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(April 2020)

ISBN: 9783447113601

Price: $82.00

In stock

Add to cart

Synopsis
Contributing Authors

The concept of having done something wrong is an integral part of normative thinking and thus a human universal. With regard to the early Chinese world of ideas and the resulting Confucian value system, consensus has it that the normative forces of “shame” have played a particularly strong role in the conceptualization and assessments of wrongdoings. This study aims to broaden our understanding of these processes by examining a group of synonyms associated with different states of “guilt” (i.e. the fact of having committed something wrong), in the course of their historical development during the pre-Qin period (appr. 1250-221 BCE). By outlining the synchronic conceptual differences and diachronic changes of these synonyms and framing them in their sociopolitical context, this attempts to relate the early history of a concept that has so far received little scholarly attention. The results of this study offer many surprises and show overall that the concept of guilt in early Chinese texts is much more nuanced than previously assumed. They provide impressive evidence of the emergence and growth of several expert discourses on the subject of guilt, thus challenging the notion of early China as a representative of a “shame culture.”

By (author) Thomas Crone

Other Titles in this Series

Imagination der Geschichte

Authentizitat, Historizitat, Widerstand und Identitat in chinesischen historischen Romanen

Volume 58

by Carsten Storm

At Home in Many Worlds

Reading, Writing and Translating from Chinese and Jewish Cultures

Volume 56

edited by Raoul David Findeisen, Gad C. Isay, Amira Katz-Goehr, Yuri Pines and Lihi Yariv-Laor

Nicht-monosyllabische Phonogramme im Altjapanischen

Kritische Bestandsaufnahme, Auswertung und Systematisierung der Falle vom Typ ongana

Volume 60

by Sven Osterkamp

Technology and Innovation in Yu Wanchun’s (俞萬春, 1793? – 1849) Novel Records of Quelling the Bandits (Dangkou zhi 蕩寇志, 1853)

Volume 73

by Sabine Weber

Dummheit’ in altchinesischen Texten

Eine Begriffsgeschichte Mit einer PDF-Datei des kompletten Inhalts auf CD-ROM

Volume 62

by Christian Schwermann

Zwei Tagebucher der Reise nach Jedo im Jahr 1826 von Heinrich Burger und Philipp Franz von Siebold

Acta Sieboldiana XI

Volume 33.11

edited by Tokuhei Tagai, (Various roles) Tamina Renner

Der Yoro-Kodex. Die Verbote

Ubersetzung des Yoro-ritsu

Volume 55

by Hans A Dettmer

Die Darstellung der Remonstration im Guoyu

Eine erzahltheoretische Untersuchung

Volume 72

by Felix Bohlen

Talking Literature

Essays on Chinese and Biblical Writings and Their Interaction

Volume 65

edited by Raoul David Findeisen and Martin Slobodnik

Studien zur Entzifferung der Schrift altkoreanischer Dichtung

Zur Entschlusselung altkoreanischer Lieder: Die Koryo-Hyangga

Volume 50

by Jung-Hee An

Von Lindenblattern und verderbten Dialekten

Neue Studien zu Georg von der Gabelentz (1840-1893)

Volume 70

edited by Henning Kloter and Xuetao Li

Der Yoro-Kodex

4: Gebote und Verbote. Generalindex der deutschen Ubersetzung

Volume 55.3

by Hans A Dettmer

The Book of Mencius and its Reception in China and beyond

Volume 52

edited by Chun-Chieh Huang, Gregor Paul and Heiner Roetz

Theorie und Praxis militarischen Wissens zwischen China und Korea im langen 17. Jahrhundert

Qi Jiguangs militarische Schriften und die nordostliche Grenzregion

Volume 67

by Felix Siegmund

Leitzeichen des Imperiums

Programmatische Ortsnamen in der Geschichte Chinas

Volume 61

by Erhard Rosner

Adnominale Verbalphrasen im Japanischen

Semantische Interpretation ihres syntaktischen Bezugs zum regierenden Nomen

Volume 53

by Hideo Ikezawa-Hanada

Miasmen

Studien zur Geschichte der Malaria in Sudchina

Volume 69

by Erhard Rosner

En – Nexus

Japanische Episoden ubersetzt fur die Okumene Klaus Kracht zu Ehren aus Anlass seiner Emeritierung

Volume 64

edited by Michael Kinski, Matthew Konigsberg, Gerhard Leinss, Markus Ruttermann and Harald Salomon

Studien zur Entzifferung der Schrift altkoreanischer Dichtung

Konkordanz der Koryo-Hyangga

Volume 51

by Jung-Hee An

Siebold’s ‘De Mineralogica Japonica’

Acta Sieboldiana X

Volume 33.1

edited by Tokuhei Tagai and Lothar Schropfer

The Philosophy of the View of Life in Modern Chinese Thought

Volume 63

by Gad C. Isay

Die Grenzen des Chinesischen

Nationale Identitatsstiftung im China des 20. Jahrhunderts

Volume 54

by Marc Andre Matten

Die Darstellung des Bogenschiessens in Bronzeinschriften der West-Zhou-Zeit (1045-771 v.Chr.)

Eine philologische Quellenanalyse

Volume 66

by Susanne Adamski

The Historical Development of Japanese Tone

From Proto-Japanese to the Modern Dialects. The Introduction and Adaptation of the Middle Chinese Tones in Japan

Volume 59

by E de Boer

Der Yoro-Kodex. Die Gebote

Einleitung und Ubersetzung des Ryo no gige. Buch 1

Volume 55

by Hans A Dettmer

Der Yoro-Kodex. Die Gebote

Ubersetzung des Ryo no gige. Teil 2: Bucher 2-10

Volume 55

by Hans A Dettmer

Paengnyon Ch’ohae

Charakteristika eines koreanischen Lehrbuchs der Parallelvers-Dichtung. Zusammenstellung, Quellen, Urheberschaft, Entstehungszeitraum und Entwicklung. Mit einer CD der Bilder verschiedener Textzeugen

Volume 57

by Jozefina E Hilker

Similar Books

Bias and the Middle Way

How to stop Absolutizing our Conditioned Assumptions

By (author) Robert M. Ellis

Chuck, Appearance and Reality

Everyday Philosophy in a TV Spy Comedy

By (author) Kelly Dean Jolley

Defining Comedy

Reflections on the Usual Suspects

By (author) David Ellis

Fermented Dairy of Central Asia

By (author) Simi Rezai-Ghassemi

Fifty Years of Insight

Bernard Lonergan's Contribution to Theology and Philosophy

edited by Neil Ormerod, Robin Koning and David Braithwaite

Limiting Spaces

The Attribution of Spatial Meaning through the Creation of Boundaries

Volume 7

edited by Mari Yamasaki, Sonja Speck and Francesca Meneghetti

Milk Grotto

Historical, Archaeological, and Anthropological Perspectives

Volume 48

Edited by Michele Bacci

On Human Ambiguity

Writings on Religion and Subjectivity

By (author) Arne Grøn Edited by William Mathorne Edited by Bjarke Mørkøre Stigel Hansen

Sextus Empiricus on Fallacies and Expert Knowledge

by Johanna Helene Schmitt

Speculative Cartographies

Material Ecopoetics and Weird Mappings

Volume 9

By (author) Grzegorz Czemiel

Theologia modernorum

Research on Robert Holcot's Theological Questions

Volume 9

Edited by Pascale Bermon Edited by Christophe Grellard Edited by Pascale Bermon

Transitive Media [Philosophy]

Think(er)ing Technologies in Real-Time

By (author) Wolfgang Ernst

Das unersetzbare Selbst

Der Mensch im Zeitalter der Kunstlichen Intelligenz

by Emil Angehrn

Hermeneutisches Wissen

Essays nach Gadamer

By (author) Tobias Keiling

Jan Schröder: Recht als Wissenschaft

Ein Kommentar

Edited by Marietta Auer Edited by Ralf Seinecke Edited by Stefan Vogenauer

La Suisse, espace privilegie du neoliberalisme / Die Schweiz, ein idealer Nahrboden fur den Neoliberalismus

edited by Hadrien Buclin

Natürliche Theologie

Beiträge zu ihrer Problemgeschichte und zur Frage ihrer gegenwärtigen Relevanz

Edited by Markus Höfner Edited by Matthias D. Wüthrich

Seiltanzer

Reflexionen uber eine Daseinsmetapher

by Gunnar Schmidt

Sitten zwischen Moralphilosophie und Politischer Okonomie am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts

Mit einer zweisprachigen Edition von Ludwig Heinrich Jakobs Preisschrift Quelles sont les institutions les plus propres a fonder la morale d'un peuple

by Sonja Asal

Teologia Politica – Politische Theologie

Volume 25

By (author) Merio Scattola Edited by Luise Schorn-Schütte Translated by Antonio Staude Translated by Francesca…

Ἀρχή and origo

The Power of Origins

Volume 13

Edited by Anke Walter Edited by Athanassios Vergados

A Communication Ethic of Dialogic Reformation

Nicholas of Cusa on Care for Communities in Crisis

Volume 106

by Michael R. Kearney

A Rational Faith

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Richard Swinburne

by Joshua Sijuwade

A Rational Faith

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Richard Swinburne

by Joshua Sijuwade

Ambiguum 10 of Maximus the Confessor in Modern Study

Papers collected on the Occasion of the Budapest Colloquium on Saint Maximus, 3-4 February 2021

Volume 97

Edited by Alexis Leonas Edited by Vladimir Cvetkovic

Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie

The Arts and Archaeology of Funerary Cultures in Islam

Volume 10.0

Edited by Michelina Di Cesare Edited by Markus Ritter

Buddhist Stone Sutras in China. Sichuan 6

Volume 6

edited by Sun Hua and Suey-Ling Tsai

Care in an Era of New Technologies and Artificial Intelligence

Relationships in a Connected World

Volume 14

By (author) V. Nurock

Classical Art and Ancient India

Proceedings of the Workshop Held in Oxford, 21-22 March 2023

Edited by Peter Stewart

Community in Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy

Volume 1

Edited by Stefano Marchesoni Edited by Nassima Sahraoui Edited by Sebastian Truskolaski

Comprehensive Survey of Rock Art in Upper Tibet: Volume IV

Stod (Western Half)

By (author) John Vincent Bellezza

Creation Concepts and Creation Care

Perspectives from Early Judaism, Early Christianity, and Beyond. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics XVII

Edited by Ruben Zimmermann Edited by Zacharias Shoukry Edited by Mirjam Jekel