Tradition and Modernity

A Humanist View
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-16578-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: Brill's Humanities in China Library

The Question for Twentieth-Century China has been the integration of tradition and modernity. In this collection of essays written over a period of some twenty years (1987-2006), Chen Lai reflects on the question in an informative and original way. He reads behind the political slogans and engages with the thought both of Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and Western sociology, and representative Chinese thinkers, notably Feng Youlan and Liang Shuming. While the focus is on China, the book also appeals to anyone interested in this fascinating question of how to modernise whilst retaining the positive values of tradition. Chen Lai’s unique and balanced grasp of society marks him out as the foremost thinker in China on this topic today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chen, Lai

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ryden, Edmund

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors’ Foreword
Translator’s Preface

Introduction: The Humanist View
1. Retrospect and Prospect for Contemporary Chinese Thought
2. Resolving the Tension between Tradition and Modernity: Reflections on the May Fourth Cultural Tide
3. The May Fourth Tide and Modernity
4. Radicalism in the Cultural Movement of the 20th Century
5. Modern Chinese Culture and the Difficulties of Confucian Learning
6. Liang Shuming’s Early View of Oriental and Western Culture
7. The Establishment and Development of Feng Youlan’s View of Culture
8. A Reflection on the New School of Principle and Thoughts on Modernity
9. Confucian Thought and the World of Modern East Asia
10. Confucian Ethics and China’s Modernisation
11. East Asian Tradition according to Modernisation Theory
12. A Sense of Predicament and Inter-dependency
13. Liang Shuming and Max Weber on Chinese Culture
14. Values, Authority, Tradition and Chinese Philosophy
15. The Difficulty of Undertaking National Studies Research in the Nineties: The problem of the national studies fever and research into traditional culture
16. The Value and Status of Traditional Chinese Culture

Postscript: Talking of Tradition at the Turn of the Century
Postface to the revised edition

Über Autor(innen)

Chen Lai, PhD. (Peking University), is a Professor of Philosophy and the director of the Center for Confucian Study and the History of Chinese Philosophy at Peking University. He is one of China's most prominent scholars of the history of Chinese philosophy, is an honorary professor at eleven universities and is a member of the editorial boards of sixteen academic journals.
Edmund Ryden, PhD. (SOAS, London University), translated Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy (Yale 2002) and the Laozi: Daodejing (Oxford World’s Classics 2008). He has also written on the philosophical background to human rights in a Chinese context.