Lisa Raphals

Gebundenes Buch

Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece

Beschreibung

This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity.

Autor

Lisa Raphals is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore and Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature in the Philosophy Department of the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece (1992), Sharing the Light: Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China (1998) and many scholarly articles. Her research interests include comparative philosophy (China and Greece), the history of science, religion, gender and science fiction studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 177mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1128g
• ISBN-13: 9781107010758
• ISBN-10: 1107010756
• Artikelnr.: 37064627