Four Ironic Coherence and the Discovery of the "Yin"

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Essences, Universals, and Omnipresence 19
6. What Is Coherence? 49
7. Non-Ironic Coherence and Negotiable Continuity 89
8. Ironic Coherence and the Discovery of the "Yin" 139
9. Non-Ironic Responses to Ironic Coherence in Xunzi and the Record of Ritual 199
10. The Yin-Yang Compromise 229
11. Conclusion and Summary 265
12. Notes 269
13. Bibliography 307
14. Index 315