The Philosophical Influences of Mao Zedong: Notations, Reflections and Insights

ISBN-13: 9781350059856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Robert Allinson

Opis

The first in-depth exploration of the role Western and Chinese philosophy played in shaping the decisions, ideas and actions of Mao Zedong.

Recenzje

Mao Ze Dong is celebrated (or cursed) as a revolutionary leader, but the philosophical foundation of his activity is largely ignored. In his superb study, Allinson fills in this lack. Mao's thought is not just located in its historical context; its complex references to the Chinese traditional thought, to Marx and Western philosophy, but also to modern sciences (quantum physics), are explored and documented. A new Mao thus emerges, a Mao whose radical acts are grounded in a thick texture of philosophical reflections. Allinson's Mao is indispensable for everybody who wants to understand not just Mao but the concatenation of philosophy and politics that characterized the twentieth century. Slavoj Zizek, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, UK 20190618

Spis treści

Foreword, Irene Eber, Louis Frieberg Professor Emerita of Chinese History and Philosophy and Senior Fellow, Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction to the Philosophical Mao2. Mao's Youthful Philosophical Development3. Mao in the Margins: Mao's Philosophy of Egoism4. Mao's Early Philosophical Influences and Reflections5. The Blend of the Influence of Chinese and Western philosophy on Mao's Thought and Parallels in China's Social and Economic Development6. Mao's Marxist Thought and the Yijing7. Mao as Metaphysician and Literatus8. Mao's Contributions to PhilosophyNotesSelected List of ReferencesIndex

O autorze

Robert Elliott Allinson is Professor of Philosophy at Soka University of America, USA and former Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.He lived through, taught, wrote and researched during the day to day making of modern Chinese history, commencing the year after the death of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, experiencing first-hand the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, through the period of Deng Xiaoping and through the era of others who were to take his place. He was full professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, teaching both Chinese and Western Philosophy. He was one of the first Americans to visit and lecture in China. He was a Visiting Fellow to Yale University, Oxford University, and Erskine Fellow to the University of Canterbury. He was Visiting Professor at Fudan University, was personally invited by Sir Joseph Needham to be a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and by the renowned Chinese scholar Tang Yijie to become Visiting Professor at Peking University. He has written extensively in the field of Chinese philosophy, author of Understanding the Chinese Mind: The Philosophical Roots (1990) and co-editor of His Harmony and Strife: Contemporary Perspectives, East and West (1989).