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The dysfunction of ritual in early Confucianism / Michael David Kaulana Ing.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Chinese Original language: Chinese Series: Oxford ritual studiesPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (285 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780199924905
  • 0199924902
  • 9780199980437
  • 0199980438
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dysfunction of ritual in early ConfucianismDDC classification:
  • 299.5/1282 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1858 .I44 2012eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Ritual in the Liji -- Typology of dysfunction -- Coming to terms with dysfunction -- Preventing -- Inevitability of failure -- Whose fault is failure? Ambiguity and impinging agencies -- Ancients did not fix their graves -- Productive anxieties and the awfulness of failed ritual -- Concluding reflections: toward a tragic theory of ritual -- On the textual composition of the Liji.
Summary: Michael Ing's 'The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism' is the first monograph in English about the Liji - a text that purports to be the writings of Confucius' immediate disciples and part of the earliest canon of Confucian texts called 'The Five Classics', included in the canon several centuries before the Analects. Ing uses his analysis of the Liji to show how early Confucians coped with situations where their rituals failed to achieve their intended aims. In contrast to most contemporary interpreters of Confucianism, Ing demonstrates that early Confucian texts can be read as arguments for ambiguity in ritual failure.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)672460

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-273) and index.

Ritual in the Liji -- Typology of dysfunction -- Coming to terms with dysfunction -- Preventing -- Inevitability of failure -- Whose fault is failure? Ambiguity and impinging agencies -- Ancients did not fix their graves -- Productive anxieties and the awfulness of failed ritual -- Concluding reflections: toward a tragic theory of ritual -- On the textual composition of the Liji.

Includes passages in Chinese with English translations.

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Michael Ing's 'The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism' is the first monograph in English about the Liji - a text that purports to be the writings of Confucius' immediate disciples and part of the earliest canon of Confucian texts called 'The Five Classics', included in the canon several centuries before the Analects. Ing uses his analysis of the Liji to show how early Confucians coped with situations where their rituals failed to achieve their intended aims. In contrast to most contemporary interpreters of Confucianism, Ing demonstrates that early Confucian texts can be read as arguments for ambiguity in ritual failure.