Jenco Chinese Thought as Global Theory

Diversifying Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences and Humanities
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6046-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Using Chinese thought, explores how non-Western thought can structure generally applicable social and political theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jenco, Leigh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Foreword
Wang Gungwu

Introduction: On the Possibility of Chinese Thought as Global Theory
Leigh Jenco

Part I. Chinese Theory and the Conditions of Knowledge

1. Knowing How to Be: The Dangers of Putting (Chinese) Thought into Action
Gloria Davies

2. Grounding Normativity in Ritual: A Rereading of Confucian Texts
Takahiro Nakajima

3. Attitudes in Action: Maoism as Emotional Political Theory
Timothy Cheek

4. A (Psycho)Analysis of China’s New Nationalism
Guanjun Wu

Part II. Chinese Theories across Time and Space

5. New Communities for New Knowledge: Theorizing the Movement of Ideas across Space
Leigh Jenco

6. The Evolution and Identity of Confucianism: The Precedence Principle in Reforming Tradition
Chenyang Li

7. Being in Time: What Medieval Chinese Theorists Can Teach Us about Causation
Ignacio Villagran and Miranda Brown

8. China’s Present as the World’s Future: China and “Rule of Law” in a Post-Fordist World
Michael W. Dowdle

Appendix: Character List
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leigh Jenco is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of Making the Political: Founding and Action in the Political Theory of Zhang Shizhao and Changing Referents: Learning Across Space and Time in China and the West.