Ogyū Sorai's philosophical masterworks : the Bendō and Benmei
"This volume, a monumental work of scholarship, offers for the first time in any Western language unabridged and fully annotated translations of Sorai's masterpieces. The Bendo (Distinguishing the Way) and Benmei (Distinguishing Names) are works of political philosophy that define the theoretical foundation for a leadership exercising total power, the best remedy, in Sorai's view, for a regime in crisis. The translations are based on the 1740 (Genbun 5) woodblock edition, the first major edition of these seminal texts published during the Tokugawa period."
Print Book, English, ©2006
Association for Asian Studies ; University of Hawaiʻi Press, [Ann Arbor, MI], Honolulu, ©2006