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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.
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- ISBN 9781438431062
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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.
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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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in What Is Enlightenment?
Philosophy and Religion > Philosophy > Philosophical traditions and schools of thought > Western philosophy from c 1800
Where can I read a sample of What Is Enlightenment?
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How long is What Is Enlightenment and how many pages does it have?
What Is Enlightenment has 131 page(s)
Is What Is Enlightenment part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Who is/are the Author/s of the book What Is Enlightenment?
Wei Zhang
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What Is Enlightenment is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781438431055) and paperback(ISBN 9781438431062) and pdf(ISBN 9781438431079)
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