Vital post-secular perspectives on Chinese philosophical issues
This book presents a number of contemporary philosophical issues from a wide range of Chinese philosophical texts, figures, and sub-traditions that are usually not addressed in English studies of Chinese philosophical traditions.
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Lanham, Maryland
Lexington Books
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Vital Post-Secular Perspectives on Chinese Philosophical Issues
- Vital Post-Secular Perspectives on Chinese Philosophical Issues
- Copyright
- Contents
- Permissions and Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Methodological Introduction
- Part I: Post-Secular Reflections on Recharacterizing Chinese Philosophical Traditions
- Chapter 1
- Post-Secular Insights into the Professional Philosopher Féng Yǒulán's (1895-1990) Life and Works
- The Pre-1949 Years: Féng as a Young and Prolific Professional Philosopher
- Féng in the 1950s: Running through the Modern Chinese Marxist Gauntlet
- Marxist Féng Yǒulán: Transmogrification in the Midst of Existential Terror
- Post-Mao Féng: Intellectual Liberation, Philosophical Mysticism, and Living with a Checkered Past
- Ends, Limits, and Ironies of Féng's Philosophical Journey
- Notes
- Chapter 2
- Aspects of a Relevant Philosophy of History for Chinese Philosophy in the Post-Secular Context of the PRC
- Justifications for Asserting a Post-Marxist Philosophy of History
- A Modern Vision of Chinese Philosophy and Its History: Hú Shì
- Three Different Philosophies of History in Féng Yǒulán's Works Dealing with Histories of Chinese Philosophy
- Féng's Identifying "Philosophy" in 1931: Insights, Inconsistencies, and Incoherence
- Mapping Creativity into a Coherent Philosophy of History
- Notes
- Part II: Post-Secular Insights into Ruist Studies
- Chapter 3
- Pre-Established Harmonies?
- Interpretive Strategy: Tracing Semi-Ruist Semi-Authoritarian Ideology
- Commentarial Complexities and Worldview in Zhāng Jūzhèng's Sìshū zhíjiě
- Culturally Transformative Possibilities and the Limits of Zhāng's Ideology
- Notes
- Chapter 4
- Post-Secular Revelations regarding the Dàxué and the Zhōngyōng
- Distinguishing between Two Major Ruist Textual Traditions
- Details of the Textual Reorganization and Emendations of the Dàxué and Zhōngyōng
- Zhū Xī's Controversial "New Text" of The Great Learning: Explanations and Revelations
- How Modern Missionary-Scholars Handled the Diverse Textual Traditions
- Concluding Comments: Contemporary Chinese Philosophers Challenging Zhū Xī's Accounts
- Notes
- Chapter 5
- On the Demystification of the Mysteries in Classical Ruism
- Focusing on Classical Chinese Textual Hermeneutics: The Zhōngyōng Chapters 16 and 19 and Conundrums in Focusing the Familiar
- A Non-Demythified Ruist Account of the Mystical in The Zhongyong: Zhāng Jūzhèng's Alternative Ruist Theism and Polypneumatism
- Concluding Assessments of the Secularism Promoted in Focusing the Familiar
- Notes
- Part III: Aspects of Post-Traditional Chinese Society and Their Philosophical Reconsideration
- Chapter 6
- Post-Secular Critiques of Twentieth-Century Utopian Projects in China