Comparison and Correspondence
Revisiting an Old Idea for the Present Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8910732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zhang Longxi (0000-0001-9268-6641, Peking University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 766-785 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Literature Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4132 • E-ISSN: 1528-4212 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/complitstudies.53.4.0766 |
| OpenAlex | W2589097405 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Analogical thinking that relates everything to everything else in a complicated system of correspondences was common in ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, early modern Europe, as well as ancient China. Such premodern theories of knowledge about correspondences between the cosmos and the human world are discredited in modern scientific thinking, but by revisiting some of the old ideas, of which the value has not been sufficiently recognized in modern scholarship, we may find them helpful in rethinking the disciplinary compartmentalization of knowledge and the possibilities of dialogues between different disciplines in comparative studies
Ancient Greece · Ancient history · Art · Biology · Compartmentalization (fire protection · Discipline · Epistemology · Literature · Mesopotamia · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Classical Studies and Philology · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |