The Quest for Liberation
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The Quest for Liberation: Philosophy and the Making of World Culture in China and the West(Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory)

The Quest for Liberation: Philosophy and the Making of World Culture in China and the West(Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory)

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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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Global Intellectual History, Ecology of Little Beings, and World Culture 1 1. Encounter in Beijing: Hermann Graf Keyserling, Gu Hongming, and Confucian Cosmopolitanism 25 2. Re-enchanting Confucianism: Max Weber, Care of the Self, and Charisma 46 3. Zhang Junmai as Philosopher: Rudolf Eucken, Life, and Spirituality 82 4. Liang Shuming, World Culture, and Rural Modernity 114 5. Early Feng Youlan’s Negative Method: Metaphysics, World Philosophy, and Sage 144 6. Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti or the Aesthetics of Translation: Universal Love, Mutual Benefits, and Transience 177 Coda: Conservatism or Alternative Modernity 193 Acknowledgments 197 Notes 201 Works Cited 239 Index 253


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781531510367
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Fordham University Press
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1531510361
  • Publisher Date: 05 Aug 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Sub Title: Philosophy and the Making of World Culture in China and the West


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