Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment : Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon / Hsiao-yen Peng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peng, Xiaoyan, 1952- author.

Series:

Hong Kong scholarship online.

Hong Kong scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Chinese--20th century.

Philosophy, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Peng Hsiao-yen argues that a trend of Counter-Enlightenment had grown from the late Qing to the May Fourth era in the 1910s to the 1920s and continued to the 1940s. She demonstrates how Counter-Enlightenment was manifested with case studies such as Lu Xun's writings in the late 1900s, the Aesthetic Education movement from the 1910s to 1920s, and the Science and Lifeview debate in the 1920s. During the period, the life philosophy movement, highlighting the epistemic debate on affect and reason, was connected with its counterparts in Germany, France, and Japan. The movement had widespread and long-term impact on Chinese philosophy and literature.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Science and Lifeview Debate

2. The Aesthetic Education Movement

3. Zhang Dongsun's Chuanghualun [Creative Evolution]

4. Liang Shuming

5. Affectivism

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 29, 2023).

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Peng, Hsiao-yen Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment

ISBN:

9789888805518

9888805517

OCLC:

1411754094