Dialogues of Confucius
The Complete Text
$76.37
- Hardcover
616 pages
- Release Date
16 June 2026
Summary
Labelled a forgery and ignored for centuries, the Dialogues of Confucius was nevertheless preserved and passed down through the generations, purportedly a companion to the Analects. Recent archaeological finds and renewed analysis now suggest that the Dialogues can be accepted as authentic and that it accurately represents the thinking of Confucius on a wide array of topics.
In this book, Brian Bruya and Wenwen Li offer the first complete translation of the text i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691276465 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691276463 |
| Author: | Brian Bruya, Wenwen Li, Confucius |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 616 |
| Release Date: | 16 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 975g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“A magnificent new translation… . We now know much more about Confucius the person, and about the context for some of the puzzling quotes in the Analects. Best of all, we learn new arguments that push the boundaries of the rich and complex Confucian tradition in new directions.”—Daniel A. Bell, Times Literary Supplement
”[Dialogues of Confucius is] beautifully bound and printed… . Based on the most updated scholarship, this edition is destined to become a standard work in the English language for a long time to come.”—Alex Lo, South China Morning Post
“An epic volume of real import.”—Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
“With their lucid translation of, lengthy introduction to and helpful commentary on The Dialogues of Confucius… . [Brian Bruya and Wenwen Li] have given us an opportunity to reappraise the most consequential and longest-surviving school of philosophy in the world.”—Julian Baggini, Prospect
Brian Bruya
Brian Bruya is professor of philosophy at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of Ziran: The Philosophy of Spontaneous Self-Causation and the editor of The Philosophical Challenge from China and Effortless Attention: A New Perspective in the Cognitive Science of Attention and Action. He has translated several volumes in Princeton’s Illustrated Library of Chinese Classics series, most recently A Cure for Chaos, C. C. Tsai’s graphic version of selections from the Mencius.
Wenwen Li is the coauthor of several Chinese-language books on the philosophy of Confucius, including Studying the Dialogues of Confucius and The Logic of the Analects.
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