Following His Own Path Li Zehou and Contemporary Chinese Philosophy

• Main Author: Rosker, Jana S
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Albany State University of New York Press 2020
• Edition: 1
• Series: SUNY Press Open Access
• Subjects: Chinese Studies,Comparative Philosophy,Chinese Religion; Philosophical traditions and schools of thought; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy: aesthetics; Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge; thema EDItEUR; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought::QDHR Western philosophy from c 1800; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTK Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTN Philosophy: aesthetics; Topics in philosophy; Western philosophy from c 1800
• ISBN: 1438472463; 9781438472461; 9781438472478; 1438472471

In this book, Jana S. Rošker offers the first comprehensive overview and exegesis of the work of Li Zehou, who is one of the most significant and influential Chinese philosophers of our time. Rošker shows us how Li's complex system of thought seeks to revive various Chinese traditions, and at the same time attempts to harmonize or reconcile this cultural heritage with the demands of the dominant economic, political, and axiological structures of our globalized world. Variously characterized as ""neo-traditional,"" ""neo-Kantian,"" ""post-Marxist,"" ""Marxist-Confucian,"" ""pragmatist,"" ""instrumentalist,"" ""romantic,"" and more, Li's work was central to the period known as the Chinese Enlightenment in the 1980s and has helped modify and transform antiquated patterns of Chinese intellectual discourse. He is one of the rare Chinese thinkers whose work has not only had a deep and lasting impact on Chinese intellectuals, but has acquired a broad readership outside of China as well. Seen from a broader intercultural perspective, Li's unique and imaginative approach to a wide range of basic theoretical problems has created new styles of intellectual investigation, while reminding us of our belonging to a common humanity, regardless of differences in our individual cultures, languages, preferences, and traditions.. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. View the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/14802