Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Goldin, Paul R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Political theory.; Political philosophy.; Philosophy, Asian.; Cultural studies.; Non-Western Philosophy.; History, general.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.; Cultural Studies.

Han Fei, who died in 233 BC, was one of the primary philosophers of China’s classical era, a reputation still intact despite recent neglect. This edited volume on the thinker, his views on politics and philosophy, and the tensions of his relations with Confucianism (which he derided) is the first of...