Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used classical Chinese philosophy as an alternative intellectual genealogy to reimagine ethics, politics, society, and modernity for the entire world.
Contemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used classical Chinese philosophy as an alternative intellectual genealogy to reimagine ethics, politics, society, and modernity for the entire world.
Chunjie Zhang is Associate Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Transculturality and German Discourse in the Age of European Colonialism (Northwestern, 2017).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Global Intellectual History, Ecology of Little Beings, and World Culture 1 1. Encounter in Beijing: Hermann Graf Keyserling, Gu Hongming, and Confucian Cosmopolitanism 25 2. Re-enchanting Confucianism: Max Weber, Care of the Self, and Charisma 46 3. Zhang Junmai as Philosopher: Rudolf Eucken, Life, and Spirituality 82 4. Liang Shuming, World Culture, and Rural Modernity 114 5. Early Feng Youlan’s Negative Method: Metaphysics, World Philosophy, and Sage 144 6. Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti or the Aesthetics of Translation: Universal Love, Mutual Benefits, and Transience 177 Coda: Conservatism or Alternative Modernity 193 Acknowledgments 197 Notes 201 Works Cited 239 Index 253
Introduction: Global Intellectual History, Ecology of Little Beings, and World Culture 1 1. Encounter in Beijing: Hermann Graf Keyserling, Gu Hongming, and Confucian Cosmopolitanism 25 2. Re-enchanting Confucianism: Max Weber, Care of the Self, and Charisma 46 3. Zhang Junmai as Philosopher: Rudolf Eucken, Life, and Spirituality 82 4. Liang Shuming, World Culture, and Rural Modernity 114 5. Early Feng Youlan’s Negative Method: Metaphysics, World Philosophy, and Sage 144 6. Bertolt Brecht’s Me-ti or the Aesthetics of Translation: Universal Love, Mutual Benefits, and Transience 177 Coda: Conservatism or Alternative Modernity 193 Acknowledgments 197 Notes 201 Works Cited 239 Index 253
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