Modern Chinese counter-enlightenment : affect, reason, and the transcultural lexicon  Modern Chinese Country-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2522261B

  Author(s)

  Peng, Hsiao-yen

  City

  Hong Kong 

  Country

  China 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9789888805693 

  Date of Publication

  2023 

  Publisher

  Hong Kong University Press  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  218 

  Subject

  Philosophy / Psychology

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Peng,Hsiao-yen

  Publisher

  Hong Kong University Press  

• Description

  Modern Chinese Country-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon In Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon, Peng Hsiao-yen argues that a trend of Counter-Enlightenment had grown from the late Qing to the May Fourth era in the 1910s to the 1920s and continued to the 1940s. She demonstrates how Counter-Enlightenment was manifested with case studies such as Lu Xun’s writings in the late 1900s, the Aesthetic Education movement from the 1910s to 1920s, and the Science and Lifeview debate in the 1920s. During the period, the life philosophy movement, highlighting the epistemic debate on affect and reason, is connected with its counterparts in Germany, France, and Japan. The movement had widespread and long-term impact on Chinese philosophy and literature. Using the transcultural lexicon as methodology, this book traces how the German term Lebensanschauung (lifeview), a key concept in Rudolf Eucken’s life philosophy, constituted a global tide of Counter-Enlightenment that influenced the thought of leading Chinese intellectuals in the Republican era. Peng contends that Chinese intellectuals’ transcultural connections with others in the philosophical pursuit of knowledge triggered China’s self-transformation. She has successfully reconstructed the missing link in the Chinese theater of the worldwide dialectic of Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment.