Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries / Edition 1

by Confucius, Edward Slingerland

Overview

The famous translation of the complete work by Edward Slingerland, containing passages addressing all main subjects, is included in The Essential Analects. The text, as well as its reception and interpretation, are accessible through an appendix of chosen traditional commentaries keyed to each passage. A term glossary and brief biographies of Confucius' followers and the traditional commentators quoted are also provided.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872206359
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	09/15/2003
Series:	Hackett Classics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Sales rank:	172,028
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edward Slingerland is Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia.

Editorial Reviews

Confucius taught that 'virtue is never solitary; it always has neighbors.' (4.25). Based on the best modern and traditional Chinese and Western scholarship, Edward Slingerland's exemplary new translation of the Analects—including selections from the traditional commentaries on each passage of the text—is a welcome edition. Contemporary readers will be enlightened as to what Confucius taught his disciples and will share the experience of being a neighbor to all the generations of students who have pondered the sometimes cryptic and enigmatic words of Confucius. Slingerland's use of commentary gives readers a fighting chance at understanding and appreciating this foundational Confucian classic. —John Berthrong, Boston University

This work not only exemplifies meticulous research and scrupulous craft of translation, it also offers a new perspective for Analects scholarship and a new model for Analects translation. Edward Slingerland should be congratulated for providing such an invaluable service to American college students as well as the scholarly community at large. There is much for us to learn from this new translation, and we are all indebted to its author. —Yuet Keung Lo, China Review International

Edward Slingerland's new translation of the Confucian Analects is something that we have long needed: an accurate, lucid rendition paired with helpful explanations and reference material, including selections from the most important traditional commentaries. General readers and students will find no more accessible, reliable entree to this difficult and seminal text. This new Analects is an extraordinary contribution and should by rights become the preferred starting-point for English-language readers. —David Schaberg, University of California, Los Angeles

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