Chinese thought as global theory : diversifying knowledge production in the social sciences and humanities / edited by Leigh Jenco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jenco, Leigh K., 1977- editor.

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Chinese.

Globalization.

Social sciences.

Humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With a particular focus on Chinese thought, this volume explores how, and under what conditions, so-called "non-Western" traditions of thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory. Reversing the usual comparison between "local" Chinese application and "universal" theory, the work demonstrates how Chinese experiences and ideas offer systematic insight into shared social and political dilemmas. Contributors discuss how medieval Chinese understandings of causal heterogeneity can relieve impasses within contemporary historiography, how current economic and social conditions in China respond proactively to the future configuration of world markets, and how hybrid modes of cross-cultural engagement offer new foundations for the enterprise of learning from cultural others. Each chapter works from Chinese perspectives to theorize the location of knowledge, its conditions of production, and the modes through which its content or adequacy is legitimated, challenged, and sustained. Rather than reproducing Eurocentric knowledge production in Chinese form, the mobilization of Chinese thought as a generally applicable body of theory actually breaks down clear boundaries between Chinese and non-Chinese thought.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction On the Possibility of Chinese Thought as Global Theory; On "Theory"; The Pitfalls of Comparison; Theory and Its Contexts; On "China" and "Chinese"; Chapter Summaries; Notes; Part I: Chinese Theory and the Conditions of Knowledge; Chapter 1 Knowing How to Be The Dangers of Putting (Chinese) Thought into Action; Extemporizing on Gazing at the Moon; Contesting "the Old"; The Dangers of Putting Thought into Action; Notes; Chapter 2 Grounding Normativity in Ritual A Rereading of Confucian Texts; Normativity and Autonomy

How Can We Refer to Ritual Today?Affections and Ritual: An Exemplary Normativity; Political Power and Normativity; Human Nature and Ritual: Confucius and Mencius; "What Is Necessary" and "What Is Natural": Dai Zhen's Reading of Mencius; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3 Attitudes of Action Maoism as Emotional Political Theory; Contributions of Maoist Theory to Marxist Theory and Praxis; Taidu and Cognio-Affective Disposition; Enacting Taidu in General Theory; Concluding Thoughts; Notes; Chapter 4 A (Psycho)Analysis of China's New Nationalism; Nationalism at the Gates

The "Bio-Operations" of Nationalist DiscourseWhy Is Nationalism an Obscene Discourse?; Notes; Part II: Chinese Theories across Time and Space; Chapter 5 New Communities for New Knowledge Theorizing the Movement of Ideas across Space; Qun; Culture and Knowledge in Political Theory; Learning to Qun, Qun-ing to Learn; Conclusion: Qun-ing in Our Time; Notes; Chapter 6 The Evolution and Identity of Confucianism The Precedence Principle in Reforming Tradition; Cultural Tradition as Community; The Endless Possibilities of a Tradition; The Need for Justification and the Precedence Principle; Summary

AcknowledgmentsNotes; Chapter 7 Being in Time What Medieval Chinese Theorists Can Teach Us about Causation; The Dilemma of Comparison; Tang-Dynasty Perspectives: Long-Term Processes as Transformations of Causal Logics; Discussion and Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 8 China's Present as the World's Future China and "Rule of Law" in a Post-Fordist World; The Rise and Possible Fall of the Modern Regulatory State; Fordism and Regulatory State; The Hollowing Out of the State; New Governance and the Retreat from Rule-Based Regulation; The Increasing Use of "Metaregulation"; Rethinking Chinese Law

China as Post-Fordist Regulatory StatePost-Fordism and the Regulatory Vision of the "New Left"; Notes; Appendix: Character List; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438460468

1438460465