Confucian Iconoclasm - Philippe Major

Confucian Iconoclasm

Textual Authority, Modern Confucianism, and the Politics of Antitradition in Republican China

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Buch | Softcover
290 Seiten
2024
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9549-1 (ISBN)
31,80 inkl. MwSt
Challenges deep-seated assumptions about the traditionalist nature of Confucianism by providing a new interpretation of the emergence of modern Confucianism in Republican China.
Confucian Iconoclasm proposes a novel account of the emergence of modern Confucian philosophy in Republican China (1912–1949), challenging the historiographical paradigm that modern (or New) Confucianism sought to preserve traditions against the iconoclasm of the May Fourth Movement. Through close textual analyses of Liang Shuming's Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philosophies (1921) and Xiong Shili's New Treatise on the Uniqueness of Consciousness (1932), Philippe Major argues that the most successful modern Confucian texts of the Republican period were nearly as iconoclastic as the most radical of May Fourth intellectuals. Questioning the strict dichotomy between radicalism and conservatism that underscores most historical accounts of the period, Major shows that May Fourth and Confucian iconoclasts were engaged in a politics of antitradition aimed at the monopolization of intellectual commodities associated with universality, autonomy, and liberty. Understood as a counter-hegemonic strategy, Confucian iconoclasm emerges as an alternative iconoclastic project to that of May Fourth.

An open access version of this book was published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. It can be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/13924.

Philippe Major is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel. He is the coeditor, with Thierry Meynard, of Dao Companion to Liang Shuming's Philosophy.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Reviving the Spirit of Confucius

2. Returning to the Origin

Interlude: Contextualizing Teleological History and Individual Autonomy

3. Performing Sagely Authority

4. Subsuming the Truth of Former Masters and Sages

Conclusion Hegemony and the Politics of Antitradition
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 227 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Östliche Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10 1-4384-9549-8 / 1438495498
ISBN-13 978-1-4384-9549-1 / 9781438495491
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