Jiwei Ci

Moral China in the Age of Reform

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a study of post-Mao Chinese moral subjectivity and a philosophical inquiry into the relation between moral subjectivity and freedom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9781107038660
• ISBN-10: 1107038669
• Artikelnr.: 41081314

Autorenporträt

Jiwei Ci is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong and the author of Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution: From Utopianism to Hedonism (1994) and The Two Faces of Justice (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: why the question of freedom is unavoidable
1. An anatomy of the moral crisis
2. Political order, moral disorder
3. Freedom as a Chinese question
4. Freedom and its epistemological conditions
5. Freedom and identification
6. Neither devotion nor introjection
7. The insult of poverty
8. Democracy as unmistakable reality and uncertain prospect
9. Freedom's unfinished task
10. China's space of moral possibilities.