Tang Junyi: Confucian Philosophy and the Challenge of Modernity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004330146)

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Tang Junyi: Confucian Philosophy and the Challenge of Modernity

$183.00

Tang Junyi: Confucian Philosophy and the Challenge of Modernity

$183.00
Format: Hardcover
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Tang Junyi's modern Confucianism ranks among the most ambitious philosophical projects in 20th century China. In Tang Junyi: Confucian Philosophy and the Challenge of Modernity, Thomas Fröhlich examines Tang Junyi's intellectual reaction to a time of cataclysmic change marked by two Chinese revolutions (1911 and 1949), two world wars, the Cold War period, rapid modernization in East Asia, and the experience of exile.

The present study fundamentally questions widespread interpretations that depict modern Confucianism as essentially traditionalist and nationalistic. Thomas Fröhlich shows that Tang Junyi actually challenges such interpretations with an insightful understanding of the modern individual's vulnerability, as well as a groundbreaking reinterpretation of Confucianism as the civil-theological foundation for liberal democracy in China.


Author: Thomas Fröhlich
ISBN-10: 9004330143
ISBN-13: 9789004330146
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 04/26/2017
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.90d
By Thomas Fröhlich
By Thomas Fröhlich
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Thomas Fröhlich, Dr. phil. (1999), Habilitation (2003), both at the University of Hamburg, is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Hamburg. He has published a monograph, edited volumes, and many articles on modern Chinese philosophy and intellectual history, including Staatsdenken im China der Republikzeit (Campus, 2000).

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