TY - GEN T1 - What is enlightenment : can China answer Kant's question? T2 - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture. A1 - Zhang, Wei, 1958- LA - English PP - Albany PB - State University of New York Press YR - 2010 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn649479085 AB - What is enlightenment? Wei Zhang brings together the fabled consideration of enlightenment by Kant, his contemporaries, and modern respondents such as Habermas and Foucault with the question "What is Chinese enlightenment?" Kant and his peers began a discussion of the notion of enlightenment in the pages of the Berlinische Monatsschrift when that newspaper's editor posed the question "Was ist Aufklärung?" in 1784. Chinese intellectuals began a similar consideration in the wake of the May Fourth cultural movement of 1919, which marked a self-conscious break from the feudal past and a new engagement with the West.Zhang asks to what extent European enlightenment can be regarded as purely philosophical and isolated from political events and, alternately, to what extent the Chinese enlightenment can be split into separate political and intellectual discourses. Her work yields a new set of conceptual questions and practical issues and provides new energy to the dialogue on political and cultural modernity. In cross-cultural context, Zhang finds the answers to the question "What is enlightenment?" are multiple, pluralistic, dynamic, and self-renewing. OP - 121 CN - B5233.E55 Z43 2010eb SN - 9781441658562 SN - 1441658564 SN - 9781438431079 SN - 1438431074 SN - 1438431058 SN - 9781438431055 KW - Kant, Immanuel, : 1724-1804. KW - Kant, Immanuel, : 1724-1804 KW - Europa KW - Enlightenment : China. KW - China : History : May Fourth movement, 1919. KW - Enlightenment : Europe. KW - Philosophy, Comparative. KW - Siècle des Lumières : Chine. KW - Chine : Histoire : 1919 (Mouvement du 4 mai) KW - Siècle des Lumières : Europe. KW - Philosophie comparée. KW - PHILOSOPHY : Eastern. KW - Enlightenment KW - Philosophy, Comparative KW - China KW - Europe KW - Moderne KW - Vierter-Mai-Bewegung KW - Aufklärung KW - Vergleichende Philosophie KW - Politische Philosophie KW - Westliche Welt KW - 1919 KW - History ER -