The Emotions in Early Chinese Philosophy
Curie Virág
Reviews and Awards
"I recommend the book to readers who wish to understand the broad historical background of the development of theories and emotions." -- Jing Hu, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
"... this is in many ways an excellent and enlightening book. The level of argument is uniformly high: Virág both engages with previous scholarship, and is not afraid to move beyond it, giving her own (often radically) new interpretations of texts, and in the process rehabilitating at least one philosopher into the 'mainstream'." --Ed Sanders, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"This is a brilliantly reasoned and insightful book. Virág weaves the classical era's great thinkers and their regard for the emotions into an exciting and exquisitely argued narrative. Not only does the book find intriguing commonalities between disparate ancient thinkers, it also offers a welcome corrective to philosophical studies of the emotions in China that rely on entrenched, Western dichotomies, such as those between reason and affect, or objective reality and subjective experience." --Erica Brindley, Professor of Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University
"An outstanding analysis of the complex explorations of the emotions in early Chinese philosophy. Through beautiful, close readings of the relevant texts, Curie Virág does a wonderful job of showing how and why, over the course of the early period, emotions came to occupy such a central place in the Chinese philosophical tradition. A tremendously important and exciting work." --Michael Puett, Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University