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.. . this is in many ways an excellent and enlightening book. The level of argument is uniformly high: Vir g 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. Vir g 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 Vir g 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

.. . this is in many ways an excellent and enlightening book. The level of argument is uniformly high: Vir�g 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. Vir�g 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 Vir�g 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

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Curie Virág is an Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto and Visiting Faculty in the Department of Philosophy and Medieval Studies at the Central European University in Budapest.

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