"This book studies one of the most important figures in modern Chinese intellectual history, China's greatest modern writer, Lu Xun (1881-1936). His trenchant criticisms of the China of his day still speak directly to what can be called, without hyperbole, the current crisis in philosophic...

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1. Verfasser:	Pusey, James Reeve, 1940-
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Schriftenreihe:	SUNY series in philosophy and biology.
Schlagworte:	Lu, Xun, > 1881-1936 > Criticism and interpretation. Lu, Xun, > 1881-1936 > Views on evolution. Lu, Xun, > 1881-1936 Social Darwinism > China. Darwinisme social > Chine. LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General. Evolution Social Darwinism China Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	"This book studies one of the most important figures in modern Chinese intellectual history, China's greatest modern writer, Lu Xun (1881-1936). His trenchant criticisms of the China of his day still speak directly to what can be called, without hyperbole, the current crisis in philosophical and political thought in the People's Republic. It is also a study of a non-Western intellectual's struggle - in a time of crisis - to make practical sense of the "Darwinian Revolution," a revolution not limited to the West." "Although Lu Xun died more than sixty years ago, his work is still alive in China (more so than any American writer of the 1920s and 1930s is in the United States). He is viewed paradoxically as both an official icon and as a patron saint of dissent. This book is, therefore, about Lu Xun both in his lifetime and in his second lifetime - and it looks to his third. But it is not just about Lu Xun. It is about Lu Xun and evolution. As a philosophical critique of Lu Xun's thought, it looks to Lu Xun's struggle to make practical sense of evolution, a contradiction that forces "either/or" question on the Chinese, and on us all."--Jacket
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xix, 249 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.
ISBN:	0585075018 9780585075013 1438416601 9781438416601