Zhang What Is Enlightenment

Can China Answer Kant's Question?
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3107-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 131 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

A cross-cultural work which reinvigorates the consideration of enlightenment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Wei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Two “Unrelated” Questions

1. What Is Enlightenment?
A Kant-Foucault-Habermas Sequence

2. What Is Chinese Enlightenment?
Can China Answer Kant’s Question?

3. Hermeneutics as Politics
May Fourth Appropriation of a Confucian Model

4. History and the Present
A May Fourth Critique of Spurious History

Conclusion
So. What Is Enlightenment?

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wei Zhang is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida and the author of Heidegger, Rorty, and the Eastern Thinkers: A Hermeneutics of Cross-Cultural Understanding, also published by SUNY Press.