Confucian Iconoclasm: Textual Authority, Modern Confucianism, and the Politics of Antitradition in Republican China
"Challenges deep-seated assumptions about the traditionalist nature of Confucianism by providing a new interpretation of the emergence of modern Confucianism in Republican China"--
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Suny series in Chinese philosophy and culture
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| Further subjects: | B
China
B Confucianism B History B Confucianism 20th century History (China) |
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| Summary: | "Challenges deep-seated assumptions about the traditionalist nature of Confucianism by providing a new interpretation of the emergence of modern Confucianism in Republican China"-- Confucian Iconoclasm proposes a novel account of the emergence of modern Confucian philosophy in Republican China (1912–1949), challenging the historiographical paradigm that modern (or New) Confucianism sought to preserve traditions against the iconoclasm of the May Fourth Movement. Through close textual analyses of Liang Shuming's Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philosophies (1921) and Xiong Shili's New Treatise on the Uniqueness of Consciousness (1932), Philippe Major argues that the most successful modern Confucian texts of the Republican period were nearly as iconoclastic as the most radical of May Fourth intellectuals. Questioning the strict dichotomy between radicalism and conservatism that underscores most historical accounts of the period, Major shows that May Fourth and Confucian iconoclasts were engaged in a politics of antitradition aimed at the monopolization of intellectual commodities associated with universality, autonomy, and liberty. Understood as a counter-hegemonic strategy, Confucian iconoclasm emerges as an alternative iconoclastic project to that of May Fourth. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 1438495501 |
| Access: | Open Access |