The Quest for Liberation : Philosophy and the Making of World Culture in China and the West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Chunjie.

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Series:

Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory Series

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1ST ED.

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : Fordham University Press, 2025.

New York : Fordham University Press, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used classical Chinese philosophy as an alternative intellectual genealogy to reimagine ethics, politics, society, and modernity for the entire world. Their engagement with Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism broadens the scope of global intellectual history to include a non-European origin of concepts and ideas. Due to the differences in their local crises, the Chinese and the European stories are often narrated in separate national and cultural contexts. Bridging the critical divide between China and the West, The Quest for Liberation examines the thinkers' shared interest in Chinese philosophy and their common effort to envision a world culture other than Western modernity. Breaking with the common logic of either studying the reception and adaptation of Western ideas in the East or critiquing the misrepresentation of the East in the West, Zhang's book emphasizes entanglements between Chinese and European thinkers and highlights their quest for liberation in a globalizing world. Their visions of an ontological commons for everyone help us imagine a better world community in our time of global crises, beyond the clash of civilizations. This book is available from the publisher on an open access basis.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Global Intellectual History, Ecology of Little Beings, and World Culture

1. Encounter in Beijing: Hermann Graf Keyserling, Gu Hongming, and Confucian Cosmopolitanism

2. Re-enchanting Confucianism: Max Weber, Care of the Self, and Charisma

3. Zhang Junmai as Philosopher: Rudolf Eucken, Life, and Spirituality

4. Liang Shuming, World Culture, and Rural Modernity

5. Early Feng Youlan's Negative Method: Metaphysics, World Philosophy, and Sage

6. Bertolt Brecht's Me-ti or the Aesthetics of Translation: Universal Love, Mutual Benefi ts, and Transience

Coda: Conservatism or Alternative Modernity

Acknowledgments

Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5315-1038-8

OCLC:

1528346157

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access