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Quest for Liberation

Philosophy and the Making of World Culture in China and the West

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvChunjie Zhang

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-02
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt367 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieIdiom: Inventing Writing Theory
Antal sidor240
FörlagFordham University Press
ISBN9781531510367

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Chunjie Zhang is Associate Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Transculturality and German Discourse in the Age of European Colonialism (2017), editor of Composing Modernist Connections in China and Europe (2019), and coeditor of Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, and Intersections (2023), Aesthetics and Politics in the Wake of the Enlightenment (The Germanic Review 2020), and Asian German Studies (German Quarterly 2020). She coedits the book series "Asia, Europe, and Global Connections" (Routledge).

Introduction: Global Intellectual History, Ecology of Little Beings, and World Culture 11. Encounter in Beijing:Hermann Graf Keyserling, Gu Hongming, and Confucian Cosmopolitanism 252. Re-enchanting Confucianism: Max Weber, Care of the Self, and Charisma 463. Zhang Junmai as Philosopher: Rudolf Eucken, Life, and Spirituality 824. Liang Shuming, World Culture, and Rural Modernity 1145. Early Feng Youlan’s Negative Method: Metaphysics, World Philosophy, and Sage 1446. Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti or the Aesthetics of Translation:Universal Love, Mutual Benefits, and Transience 177Coda: Conservatism or Alternative Modernity 193Acknowledgments 197Notes 201Works Cited 239Index 253

"Groundbreaking on a grand philosophical scale, The Quest for Liberation shows how German and Chinese thinkers drew on each other in search of emancipation from the confines of their own traditions. The book goes beyond comparison to articulate a horizon of exchange, mutual learning, and convergence between East and West in search of broader horizons of world culture. Zhang’s extraordinary polyglot proficiency and knowledge of major thinkers in the West and East makes for an outstanding intellectual history: bold, provocative, and admirable" - Ban Wang, Stanford University "An excellent intervention into the burgeoning scholarship on German and Asian studies, Chunjie Zhang’s The Quest for Liberation shows us how Chinese and German intellectuals harnessed each other’s philosophical traditions to rethink economics, ethics, politics, and spirituality in a quest for global justice over imperial hegemony." - Glenn Penny, UCLA