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Give the word : responses to Werner Hamacher's 95 theses on philology
\"Give the Word puts together Werner Hamacher's groundbreaking 95 Theses, a wide collection of never-before-published essays in response to individual theses, and Hamacher's own reaction to these scholars' study of his work\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sexing the World
From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender-masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores), neuter bodies (corpora).Sexing the Worldsurveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled Latin speakers to organize aspects of their society into sexual categories, and how this identification of grammatical gender with biological sex affected Roman perceptions of Latin poetry, divine power, and the human hermaphrodite.
Beginning with the ancient grammarians, Anthony Corbeill examines how these scholars used the gender of nouns to identify the sex of the object being signified, regardless of whether that object was animate or inanimate. This informed the Roman poets who, for a time, changed at whim the grammatical gender for words as seemingly lifeless as \"dust\" (pulvis) or \"tree bark\" (cortex). Corbeill then applies the idea of fluid grammatical gender to the basic tenets of Roman religion and state politics. He looks at how the ancients tended to construct Rome's earliest divinities as related male and female pairs, a tendency that waned in later periods. An analogous change characterized the dual-sexed hermaphrodite, whose sacred and political significance declined as the republican government became an autocracy. Throughout, Corbeill shows that the fluid boundaries of sex and gender became increasingly fixed into opposing and exclusive categories.
Sexing the Worldcontributes to our understanding of the power of language to shape human perception.
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The Mastery of Miscellanea: Information Management and Knowledge Acquisition in the “Chu shuo” Chapters of the Hanfeizi
The “Chu shuo” 儲說 (Treasuries of illustrations) chapters of the Hanfeizi 韓非子, attributed to Han Fei 韓非 (d. 233 BCE), encompass an extensive collection of anecdotes. The jing 經 (classic, guideline) sections of these chapters are traditionally understood to be a set of “canonical” teachings, to be explicated by the anecdotes in the shuo 說 (discourse, explanation) sections. Eschewing this assumption, my analysis substantiates an alternative hypothesis that sees many of the jing texts as later superimpositions intended to serve as paratexts to existing anecdotal collections. By interpreting the jing and shuo sections as paratexts and main texts, respectively, this study reveals how early compilers sought to organize and inventory information, as well as to guide future users' understanding and memorization of the anecdotal materials. This approach not only facilitates the reconstruction of early frameworks of information management and knowledge acquisition, but also places the “Chu shuo” chapters in a comparative context. It also proffers new answers to several long-standing philological debates, such as the meaning and function of the label yi yue — 曰 (it is also said). In its conclusion, this study draws attention to potential continuities between the pre-imperial (before 221 BCE) and imperial periods' textual and bibliographical practices.
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The History of a History: The Variant Versions of the Sulalat al-Salatin
This essay details the variation that the text of the Sejarah Malay has taken over time, explicating the work that philologists have done to discern the original source. Chambert-Loir analyzes the many variants, compares them to one another, and separates what is text from what is commentary or addition, elucidating the evolution of the text alongside the scholarly commentary that always accompanies it.
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'Plusieurs choses qu'il n'avoit veuës': Antoine Du Pinet's Translation of Pliny the Elder (1562)
Antoine Du Pinet's was the first complete translation into French of Pliny's
Natural History
. Biographical and bibliographical information is first provided on this humanist-educated translator, whose many publications include reformist and natural-historical works. The article then analyses the particular take on Pliny apparent in Du Pinet's editorial matter and in the minutiae of his translation choices. The controversy over Pliny's errors of the late fifteenth century (led by Niccolò Leoniceno) had called in question the Roman author's credibility, while populist compilations had celebrated him predominantly as a storehouse of wonders and monstrous marvels. Du Pinet, by contrast, uses his vernacular translation to recast Pliny's methodology and by so doing restore his authority and promote the importance of empiricism in accounts of the natural world.
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The Figure of Yan Zhuoju 顏涿聚 in Ancient Chinese Literature
Contributing to the surging interest in rhetorical uses of anecdotal narratives in ancient China, the present article investigates sources about a purported follower of Confucius going by the name of Yan Zhuoju, or variants thereof. The main advantage of focusing on such an obscure figure is that extant sources can be exhaustively analysed - an approach intractable for more fully documented personalities - in order to gauge the mechanisms which created the textual record historians utilise to reconstruct events of the ancient past. The article demonstrates how the same figure can be appropriated across different discourses, to wit, in attacks on Confucius's alleged improprieties; in attempts to counter such attacks; and in arguments for the increasingly meritocratic social order of the Warring States period. Rarely adding up to a complete story, such appropriations are constituted by fragmentary narratives, summary statements, and intertextual references.
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DELINQUENT FATHERS AND PHILOLOGY LUN YU 13.18 AND RELATED TEXTS
Investigating textual parallels between pre-Qin writings such as Han Feizi and Lüshi chunqiu and Confucius's statement in Lun yu 13.18 that “a father covers up for his son and a son for his father,” this article argues that the Lun yu passage is most likely derived from the version in Lüshi chunqiu or a closely related version. This has several consequences for scholarly interpretations of the Lun yu. It serves as a reminder that the Lun yu is a heterogeneous collection of textual units drawn from sometimes unexpected sources. It also demonstrates that the Lun yu should be read not in isolation but against the widest possible background of pre-Qin and Han parallels. In the final part, the article reviews some of the comparisons between Confucius in Lun yu 13.18 and Socrates in Plato's “Euthyphro,” cautioning against over-interpretations of the extremely terse statement attributed to Confucius. A more fruitful way of reading Lun yu 13.18, it is argued, would be to historicize the passage by contextualizing it within the social and legal history of the late Warring States and Han periods. 本文探討《論語．子路》「父為子隱，子為父隱」章與諸如《韓非子．五蠹》、《呂氏春秋．當務》等先秦文獻之間所存在的互文性關係，下論「父為子隱」章蓋由《呂氏春秋》中的一篇軼聞衍生而來。這對《論語》的學術詮釋而言會有兩重意義：其一、證明《論語》所收諸篇章極為博雜，其來源未必限於純粹儒家文獻；其二、同時也表明欲研讀《論語》，則應以同時代文獻中重出語句為研究重點。 此後，本文討論學界以往對「父為子隱」章與柏拉圖《游敘弗倫》篇的比較研究，提出「父為子隱」章雖與後者有相似之處，然因文筆過簡，故其異同到底何在卻難以說明。因此，與其比孔子於蘇格拉底，寧以「父為子隱」章與先秦兩漢法律史、社會史之關係為研究對象。
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Aristotle
This definitive biography shows that Aristotle's philosophy is best understood on the basis of a firm knowledge of his life and of the school he founded. First published in Italian, and now translated, updated, and expanded for English readers, this concise chronological narrative is the most authoritative account of Aristotle's life and his Lyceum available in any language. Gathering, distilling, and analyzing all the evidence and previous scholarship, Carlo Natali, one of the world's leading Aristotle scholars, provides a masterful synthesis that is accessible to students yet filled with evidence and original interpretations that specialists will find informative and provocative.
Cutting through the controversy and confusion that have surrounded Aristotle's biography, Natali tells the story of Aristotle's eventful life and sheds new light on his role in the foundation of the Lyceum. Natali offers the most detailed and persuasive argument yet for the view that the school, an important institution of higher learning and scientific research, was designed to foster a new intellectual way of life among Aristotle's followers, helping them fulfill an aristocratic ideal of the best way to use the leisure they enjoyed. Drawing a wealth of connections between Aristotle's life and thinking, Natali demonstrates how the two are mutually illuminating.
For this edition, ancient texts have been freshly translated on the basis of the most recent critical editions; indexes have been added, including a comprehensive index of sources and an index to previous scholarship; and scholarship that has appeared since the book's original publication has been incorporated.
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PLUTARCH'S COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUE IN THE \AN SENI RESPUBLICA GERENDA SIT\: CLUSTERS VS. PATTERNS
The theory of \"clusters of parallel passages\" introduced by the Leuven School has been an important tool for the investigation of Plutarch's compositional techniques. This article seeks to test the exact validity of the Leuven approach by examining whether we can always detect clusters of Plutarch's thought in cases in which identical items recur in different contexts. In the first section of this article I discover a cluster shared by the An seni respublica gerenda sit and the Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, while in the second section I end with an elaborate pattern of thought shared by the An seni respublica gerenda sit and the Praecepta gerendae reipublicae. Both cases illustrate equally how Plutarch reuses the same material to make it fit the varying themes of different essays.
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Coleridge’s Pedantry
Barry talks about Coleridge's Pedantry. Early in chapter 10 of Biographia Literaria (1817), Coleridge depicts an imagined exchange between himself and an aggrieved reader. In the first sentence of the chapter the reader complains that he has never encountered the term \"esemplastic\" before. \"The word,\" he remarks, \"is not in Johnson, nor have II met with it elsewhere.\" The passage shifts directly into the voice of the author, who claims that he coined the term \"from the Greek words, eis en plattein i.e. to shape into one.\" The author proposes that the term will aid readers' recollections and avoid the familiar connota- tions of \"imagination.\" \"But this,\" erupts the reader, \"is pedantry!\" (BL, 1:154). In response, the author defends his technical language, insisting that the neologism is rhetorically appropriate to the occasion. Just a few pages earlier he quotes long passages of sixteenth-century Latin without providing any translation, and untranslated Greek phrases occur with some frequency throughout the Biographia.
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