- BOOKS:
- Analects translations (with my personal
appreciation from * to ***):
1. James Legge:
Confucian Analects, The Great Learning and The Doctrine of the
Mean. (Dover Publications 1971 -original edition 1893- 503pp).
With the Chinese text, notes and a dictionary of all characters.
A must if you want to study the Chinese text. **
- 2. Arthur Waley:
The Analects of Confucius. (Vintage Books 1989 -original edition
1938- 257pp). **
- 3. Wing-Tsit Chan:
Selections from the Analects, in: A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy
(Princeton University Press 1963, 856p.) **
4. D.C. Lau: Confucius,
The Analects (Penguin Books 1979, 249pp). **
- 5. Simon Leys:
The Analects of Confucius (W.W. Norton & Co.1997, 224p).
**
A review by Jonathan Spence
6.
Chichung Huang: The Analects of Confucius.
A literal translation with an introduction and notes (Oxford
University Press, 1997, 216p.) *
A review by P.J. Ivanhoe
7. Bruce
and Taeko Brooks: The Original Analects,
Sayings of Confucius and his successors (Columbia University
Press, 1998, 342p.) ***
Each saying
is followed by detailed notes (the best available).
8. Edward Slingerland: Confucius, Analects,
with selections from the Traditional commentaries. (probably the best choice as
a first approach to the Analects )***
 8. Roger T. Ames and Henry Rosemont:
The Analects of Confucius,
A Philosophical Translation, (Ballantine, 1998,
326p.)
Highlights
the key Chinese characters as they appear in
the English text. The philosophical introduction
is outstanding. ***
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- ALSO:
- David L. Hall & Roger T. Ames: Thinking Through Confucius.
(State University of New York Press, 1987, 393p.) Very detailed analysis of key words in the Analects,
includes a fascinating comparison with Western philosophy, even
post-modernism. The authors see YI-appropriateness as central
to Confucius' teaching, with a flexible approach to LI-ritual.***
- Herbert Fingarette:
Confucius, The Secular as Sacred (Waveland
Press, 1972, 84p.) Another reading
of Confucius in the light of 20th century Western philosophy.
The author sees LI-ritual as Confucius' main concept.
***
- Confucius and the Analects:
New Essays
Bryan
W. Van Norden (Editor):
An outstanding collection of articles by sinologists
and philosophers. **
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