Learning for Oneself: Essays on the Individual in Neo-Confucian Thought

by William Theodore de Bary and Wm. Theodore de Bary

Well known as a scholar of Asian culture, de Bary examines the concepts of self-understanding and self-cultivation in neo-Confucian thought from the 12th to the 17th centuries, in relation to the social, political, and scholarly roles of educated men in late imperial China. Rejecting the notion that

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231074263
• ISBN13: 9780231074261
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher