What is enlightenment : can China answer Kant's question? /

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 enlightenme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhang, Wei, 1958-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010.
Series:SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18252884
Table of Contents:
  • Two "unrelated" questions
  • What is enlightenment? : a Kant-Foucault-Habermas sequence
  • What is Chinese enlightenment? : can China answer Kant's question?
  • Hermeneutics as politics : May Fourth appropriation of a Confucian model
  • History and the present : a May Fourth critique of spurious history
  • Conclusion : so-- what is enlightenment?