Family and Filiality

An Intercultural Perspective

Xianglong Zhang (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

211 Seiten

2025
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
9798855802177 (ISBN)

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Compares Chinese and Western perspectives on the family.

This book is a timely contribution to the growing field of the philosophy of the family. Drawing on a lifetime of research in Western and Chinese philosophy, Zhang Xianglong adopts a comparative perspective to navigate between Greek philosophy, phenomenology, and Confucianism to explore such topics as the nature of the family, filiality, human nature, temporality, memory, incest taboos, the future of Confucianism, and popular literature. He weaves his vast intercultural knowledge and understanding into penetrating philosophical, social, literary, and anthropological insights that reveal the strengths and weaknesses of Western and Chinese conceptions of the family. This book is a paradigm of comparative philosophy and demonstrates the value of the Chinese intellectual tradition for modern philosophy.

Zhang Xianglong张祥龙(1949–2022) dedicated his career to the intercultural dialogue between Chinese and Western philosophy. His previous books include Heidegger's Thought and Chinese Dao of Heaven《海德格尔思想与中国天道and From Phenomenology to Confucius《从现象学到孔夫子》. Kevin J. Turner is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the translator of Excavated Texts and a New Portrait of the Early Confucians by Wang Zhongjiang.

Preface

1. Between Confucianism's "Treating Family Affectionately" and Kierkegaard's "Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac"

2. Is Human Nature Related to the Family and the Way of Filial Reverence? Critiquing the New Culture Movement on the Family

3. Anthropology and the Temporality of the Way of Filial Reverence

4. Imagination and Historical Memory: The Stratification of Internal Time Consciousness

5. Incest Taboos and the Way of Filial Reverence

6. Incest and Plato's Republic

7. Who Should Care for the Elderly?

8. Parents, Children, and the Confucian Classics

9. Toward a Confucian Special Zone by Way of an Intercultural Dialogue with the Amish

10. Can Confucianism Accept a Matriarchal Family? Learning from the Matriarchal Mosuo of Southwestern China

11. Family Relations and the Way of Filial Reverence in Harry Potter

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Erscheinungsdatum	21.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series, Translating China
Übersetzer	Kevin J. Turner
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9798855802177 / 9798855802177
Zustand	Neuware