Tang Junyi: Confucian Philosophy And The Challenge Of Modernity (modern Chinese Philosophy)
by Thomas Frohlich /
2017 / English / PDF
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Tang Junyi's modern Confucianism ranks among the most ambitious
philosophical projects in 20th century China. In
Tang Junyi's modern Confucianism ranks among the most ambitious
philosophical projects in 20th century China. InTang Junyi:
Confucian Philosophy and the Challenge of Modernity
Tang Junyi:
Confucian Philosophy and the Challenge of Modernity, Thomas
Frohlich examines Tang Junyi's intellectual reaction to a time of
cataclysmic change marked by two Chinese revolutions (1911 and
1949), two world wars, the Cold War period, rapid modernization in
East Asia, and the experience of exile. The present study
fundamentally questions widespread interpretations that depict
modern Confucianism as essentially traditionalist and
nationalistic. Thomas Frohlich shows that Tang Junyi actually
challenges such interpretations with an insightful understanding of
the modern individual's vulnerability, as well as a groundbreaking
reinterpretation of Confucianism as the civil-theological
foundation for liberal democracy in China.
, Thomas
Frohlich examines Tang Junyi's intellectual reaction to a time of
cataclysmic change marked by two Chinese revolutions (1911 and
1949), two world wars, the Cold War period, rapid modernization in
East Asia, and the experience of exile. The present study
fundamentally questions widespread interpretations that depict
modern Confucianism as essentially traditionalist and
nationalistic. Thomas Frohlich shows that Tang Junyi actually
challenges such interpretations with an insightful understanding of
the modern individual's vulnerability, as well as a groundbreaking
reinterpretation of Confucianism as the civil-theological
foundation for liberal democracy in China.
