TY - JOUR
AU - Littlejohn, Ronnie
AB -  FEATURE REVIEWS Recent Works on Confucius and the Analects Department of Philosophy, Belmont University Confucius and the Analects: New Essays. Edited by Bryan W. Van Norden. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x 342. Hardcover $65.00. Paper $24.95. Confucius: Analects with Selections from Traditional Commentaries. Translated by Edward Slingerland. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2003. Pp. xxix 279. Hardcover $18.00. Paper $10.95. I do not think I can remember reading a professional review of any scholarly work beginning with the imperative ``Rush out and buy these books!'' But I am not embarrassed to open my comments about these two new volumes on the work of Confucius with just such advice. I think that these works should be included in the personal and institutional libraries of any public interested in classical Confucianism and the Analects. I will review them in the order of their publication. Accordingly, Professor Slingerland's work, although a translation and commentary on the Lun yu, will follow the set of essays compiled and edited by Professor Van Norden. Although this seems to be a rather straightforward procedure, the reader may well wonder whether Slingerland's translation and its extensive use of the commentarial tradition on the Analects in 
TI - Recent Works on Confucius and the Analects
JF - Philosophy East and West
DA - 2005-12-30
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-hawai-i-press/recent-works-on-confucius-and-the-analects-YJAklFAvcp
SP - 99
EP - 109
VL - 55
IS - 1
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