The Philosopher Li Zehou

His Thought and His Legacy

Jana S. Rošker, Roger T. Ames (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

496 Seiten

2025
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
979-8-8558-0171-2 (ISBN)

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Deepens our understanding of this contemporary Chinese thinker's philosophy and its significance.

Li Zehou (1930–2021) was one of China's most prominent contemporary philosophers, transforming Confucian philosophy into a resource for positive change. From a critical rereading of the Analects to a formulation of his own aesthetic theory, Li reinterpreted the tradition from earliest times down to the present day. In this effort, he was inspired by Marx and Kant but was neither a Marxist nor a Kantian. Nor was he a Confucian. He was, and remains, an original: the philosopher Li Zehou.

In this volume, Chinese, European, and US scholars explore Li's contributions to Chinese philosophy and culture, deepening our understanding of his philosophy and its significance while also celebrating the intellectual diversity and richness of Chinese philosophical thought. In a passionate and dedicated endeavor to ensure that Li's philosophy endures and continues to inspire scholars, particularly the younger generation of academics, both in China and around the world, the volume aims to serve as a catalyst for ongoing scholarship and discourse on the work of the philosopher Li Zehou.

Jana S. Rošker is Professor of Sinology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is the author or editor of many books, including Following His Own Path: Li Zehou and Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, also published by SUNY Press. Roger T. Ames is Humanities Chair Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University. His many previous books include Living Chinese Philosophy: Zoetology as First Philosophy and Human Becomings: Theorizing Persons for Confucian Role Ethics, both published by SUNY Press.

Introduction 1
Jana S. Rošker and Roger T. Ames

Part 1: Li Zehou, the Philosopher

1. Li Zehou, Wily Provocateur
Michael Nylan

2. Li Zehou in the Tradition of Masters and Commentators
Paul J. D'Ambrosio

3. A New Alternative to the How-to-Live Concern
Wang Keping

Part 2: Culture in the Mirror of History

4. Sedimentation and Gene-Culture Coevolution
Jordan B. Martin

5. Situated Cognition and Historical Perspective: Li Zehou and Contemporary Aesthetics
Rafal Banka

Part 3: Freedom, Autonomy, and Justice

6. Autonomy and the Nature of Ruist Morality: Li Zehou and Mou Zongsan
David Elstein

7. Justice, Harmony, and the Good Life of Guanxi: Li Zehou's Response to Liberalism
Andrew Lambert

8. A Deep Harmony Account of Justice
Chenyang Li

Part 4: Humanist Harmony and Limitless Equilibrium

9. Emotion as Substance: A Concrete Humanist Moral Framework
Robert A. Carleo III

10. Measure Without and Beyond Measure: Brief Notes on the Primary Category of Li Zehou's Anthropologico-Historical Ontology
Wu Xiaoming

11. A Post-Marxian Dialogue on the Subject–Object Relation: Li Zehou and Adorno on the Dialectics of Aesthetic Subjectivity
Jana S. Rošker

Part 5: From Aesthetics to Ethics

12. Li Zehou on the Distinction and Interaction between Ethics and Morality
Jinhua Jia

13. The Philosophy of Beauty as an Ethics of Freedom: From Kant to Li Zehou; Perspectives of an Attractive Line of Thought
Gregor Paul

14. Li Zehou's Major Works on Chinese Aesthetics: The Path of Beauty and The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition
Karl-Heinz Pohl

Part 6: Discursive Dialogues

15. The Origins of Chinese Culture and the Question of Shamanism: Li Zehou and Xu Fuguan
Maja Maria Kosec

16. Fruits of Practice: A Comparative Analysis of Li Zehou's Concept of Sedimentation and the Buddhist Idea of the Transformations of Storehouse Consciousness (Alaya)
Dawid Rogacz

17. Number and Mathematics in Li Zehou's Critique of Critical Philosophy
Sydney Morrow

Li Zehou's Key Works: A Comprehensive Chronological Bibliography of His Most Significant Publications

Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Zusatzinfo	1 Figures
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	676 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
ISBN-13	979-8-8558-0171-2 / 9798855801712
Zustand	Neuware