A New Approach to Kant

A Confucian-Marxist’s Viewpoint

Zehou Li (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

354 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer Verlag, Singapore
9789811302381 (ISBN)

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Originally written during the Cultural Revolution, this book introduces and interprets Kant’s critical philosophy through the lens of its author Li Zehou’s own philosophical approach: anthropological historical ontology. Li argues that the process of human development begins with and is shaped by the practical material activities associated with making and using tools in primitive societies. Over millions of years, these ever-evolving practices accumulate and become sedimented into archetypical forms that shape history, social relationships, and human psychology. Li’s views draw upon Marx’s theory of practice and, as those familiar with his work will recognize, his reinterpretation of Confucian thought with its emphasis on material life and worldly existence. Beginning with the assumption that the question at heart of Kant’s philosophy is “What is the human being?” Li offers a highly original answer by arguing that the root of Kant’s “transcendental” knowledge, universal forms, moral autonomy, and aesthetics can be found in the practical and social activities associated with tool-making. Li offers a new reading not only of Kant but of modern European philosophy, including Hegel and Marx, that forces us to rethink our understanding of the relation between individuals and communities and challenges us to ask ourselves how we can best achieve both harmony and freedom in our shared human future.

Li Zehou is perhaps the most influential Chinese philosopher alive today, and arguably one of the most important Chinese intellectuals in the past fifty years. He became famous in the 1980s with his work on Chinese aesthetics, and is well known as a historical materialist, a Neo-Kantian, and Marxist-Confucian. Many of his works on the history of Chinese philosophy as well as his books on his own philosophical system are now being translated into English. Jeanne Haizhen Allen received Master degree on Western Philosophy at Philosophy Department in East China Normal University, Shanghai, and currently is working on her Master thesis on Aristotle's philosophy on bodily pleasure at Classics Department in McMaster University in Canada. She has translated nine literary books from English to Chinese. Christopher Ahn is an independent scholar and translator based in the United States.

The Sources and Development of Kant’s Thought.- Epistemology: Raising the Question.- Epistemology: Space and Time.- Epistemology: Categories.- Epistemology: Self-Consciousness.- Epistemology: Antinomy.- Epistemology: Things in Themselves.- Ethics: Moral Laws.- Ethics: Views on Religion, Politics, and History.- Aesthetics and Teleology: Critique of Judgment.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.08.2018
Reihe/Serie	Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures ; 27
Übersetzer	Jeanne Haizhen Allen, Christopher Ahn
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 354 p.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-13	9789811302381 / 9789811302381
Zustand	Neuware