Zhang, Wei, 1958-

What is enlightenment? : can China answer Kant's question? / Wei Zhang. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010. - x, 121 p. ; 24 cm. - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture . - SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-117) and index.

Two unrelated questions -- What is enlightenment? : a Kant-Foucault-Habermas sequence -- What is Chinese enlightenment? : can China answer Kant's question? -- Hermeneutics as politics : a May Fourth appropriation of a Confucian model -- History and the present : a May Fourth's critiques of spurious history -- Afterthought : so, what is enlightenment?

9781438431055 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1438431058 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.


Enlightenment--China.
Enlightenment--Europe.
Philosophy, Comparative.
Moderne
Vierter-Mai-Bewegung
Aufklärung
Vergleichende Philosophie
Politische Philosophie


China--History--May Fourth movement, 1919.
China
Westliche Welt
Europa

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