Leigh Jenco (London School Associate Professor of Political Theory

Changing Referents

Learning Across Space and Time in China and the West

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Produktbeschreibung

Against those who insist our thinking must remain within the dominant terms of Euro-American modernity, Jenco demonstrates how China's nineteenth- and twentieth-century "Western Learning" debates offer theoretically credible alternatives to current methods for engaging otherness and confronting ethnocentrism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780190263829
• ISBN-10: 0190263822
• Artikelnr.: 47864051

Autorenporträt

Leigh Jenco is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* 1. Toward the Creative Engagement of Chinese Thought
* 2. Westernization as Barbarization: Culturalism, Universalism and
Particularism
* 3. Can Cultural Others be Historical Others? The Curious Thesis of
"Chinese origins for Western knowledge" (Xi xue Zhong yuan)
* 4. Why Learning from Others is Political, not (only) Epistemological:
Arguments for "Changing Referents" (Bianfa)
* 5. How Meaning Moves: Tan Sitong's Metaphysics of Culture
* 6. Where Knowledge Creates its Own Object: Yan Fu and Liang Qichao on
"The Study of Groups" (Qunxue)
* 7. Culture as History: Envisioning Change in the May Fourth Era
* 8. The Culturally Unprecedented: "Old," "New," and the Political
Tractability of Background Conditions
* 9. Here and Now: Modern Chinese Thought as a Source of Innovation
* Appendix
* Bibliography
* Index