Dao Companion to Liang Shuming’s Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9783031180019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 357 str.

Thierry Meynard; Philippe Major

Opis

This book provides an analysis of the complex philosophy of Liang Shuming. This twentieth-century thinker opened up a number of paths that were to become central components of modern Chinese philosophy. For the first time, experts are brought together to analyze the complexity of his philosophy, which continues to exert a considerable influence today. This edited volume covers Liang’s multifaceted thought as informed by his many identities as a Buddhist, a Confucian, a Bergsonian, a rural reformer, and a philosopher. The volume will appeal to students, scholars, and general-interest readers. 

Recenzje

"The chapters in this volume should serve as a 'companion' and guide by informing the student and relatively uninformed reader about various aspects of the Zhuangzi as we have described above, including the different styles and methods of approaching it. Together, they offer an appreciation of, and insights into, a complex and fascinating text with many different layers of meaning. ... The more specialized readers should find the contents of ... the chapters to be original and engaging." (Kim-chong Chong, Scriptable, rtreview.org, Issue 114, September, 2023)

Spis treści

Introduction

Thierry Meynard and Philippe Major

LIANG Shuming: A Life

Guy S. Alitto

Liang the Buddhist

Jingjing LI

Liang the Bergsonian

Joseph Ciaudo

Liang the Philosopher of Culture

Zbigniew Wesołowski

Liang the Philosopher of Religion

Thierry Meynard

Liang the Philosopher of Living: On the Counter-Enlightenment Thought of LIANG Shuming During the 1920s

Chan-liang WU

Liang the Rural Reformer

Ady Van den Stock

Liang the Moral and Social Philosopher

Yanming AN

Liang the Political Philosopher: Contemplating Confucianism and Democracy in Republican China

Hung-Yok IP

Liang under Mao: The Reconciliation of Confucianism and Buddhism with Marxist Ideology

Yim Fong CHAN

LIANG Shuming’s Legacy in Hong Kong and Taiwan Since 1949: Liang’s Philosophical Connection with TANG Junyi 

James Zhixiang YANG 

LIANG Shuming’s Reception in Mainland China Since the 1980s

Huajun ZHANG

The Many Faces of LIANG Shuming: One Hundred Years in the Reception of Liang’s Thought in European Languages (1922–2022)

Philippe Major and Milan Matthiesen

Index

O autorze

Thierry Meynard is Doctor in Chinese Philosophy from Peking University with a thesis on the religious thought of Liang Shuming (2003), published in English as The Religious Philosophy of Liang Shuming (2010). Since 2006, he is professor of philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University, China. He is also director of the Archives for the Introduction of Western Learning, and the executive director of the Research Center on Canton and international exchanges. 

Philippe Major is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies of the University of Basel. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the National University of Singapore, where he wrote his thesis on modern Confucianism in Republican China, and an MA in History from National Taiwan University. Situated in the fields of modern Chinese philosophy and modern Chinese intellectual history, his work focuses on the issues of the politics of tradition and antitradition, textual authority, and epistemic hegemony.