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Author Ivanhoe, Philip J

Title Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage Essential Writings of Im Yungjidang and Gang Jeongildang
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (305 p.)
Series Oxford New Histories Philosophy Series
Oxford New Histories Philosophy Series
Contents Cover -- Series -- Korean Women Philosophers and the Ideal of a Female Sage -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Conventions -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Cover Illustration -- Introduction -- The Extant Writings of Yunjidang -- Biographies -- Discourses -- Colophons -- Expositions -- Admonitions -- Inscriptions -- Encomium -- Funeral Orations -- Prologue -- Works on the Meaning of the Classics -- The Extant Writings of Jeongildang -- Poems -- Letters -- Personal Missives -- Additional Letters -- Commemorations
Forewords and Postscripts -- Epitaphs -- Short Biographies -- Funeral Orations -- Inscriptions -- Miscellaneous Writings -- Lost Works: Poem -- Lost Works: Personal Missives -- Bibliography -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Editors and translators Wang and Ivanhoe introduce the lives and ideas of two female Korean Confucian philosophers from the late Joseon Dynasty, Im Yunjidang (1721-1793) and Gang Jeongildang (1772-1832), exploring their writings and arguments for the ability of women to attain the highest forms of intellectual and moral achievement and become female sages (yeoseong)
Form Electronic book
Author Wang, Hwa Yeong
ISBN 9780197508701
0197508707