Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Series Editors’ Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Response to Paul Gauguin’s Triple Question 18
6. Part I. Li Zehou and the Modernization of Confucianism
7. 1. Li Zehou and New Confucianism: A Philosophy for New Global Cultures 33
8. 2. “Western Learning as Substance, Chinese Learning for Application”: Li Zehou’s Thought on Tradition and Modernity 57
9. 3. Modernizing Confucianism: Li Zehou’s Vision and Inspiration for an Unfinished Project 74
10. 4. Determinism and the Problem of Individual Freedom in Li Zehou’s Thought 94
11. 5. What Should the World Look Like? Li Zehou, Confucius, Kant, and the World Observer 118
12. Part II. Li Zehou’s Reconception of Confucian Philosophy
13. 6. Li Zehou’s Lunyu jindu (Reading the Analects Today) 137
14. 7. Li Zehou’s Reconception of Confucian Ethics of Emotion 155
15. 8. Li Zehou’s Doctrine of Emotion as Substance and Confucian Philosophy 187
16. 9. Li Zehou and Pragmatism 208
17. 10. Li Zehou’s View of Pragmatic Reason 225
18. Part III. Li Zehou’s Aesthetical Theory and Confucianism
19. 11. Li Zehou’s Aesthetics: Moving On after Kant, Marx, and Confucianism 255
20. 12. Li Zehou, Kant, and Darwin: The Theory of Sedimentation 278
21. 13. Li Zehou’s Aesthetics and the Confucian “Body” of Chinese Cultural Sedimentation: An Inquiry into Alternative Interpretations of Confucianism 313
22. 14. Modern Chinese Aesthetics and Its Traditional Backgrounds: A Critical Comparison of Li Zehou’s Sedimentation and Jung’s Archetypes 335
23. 15. Li Zehou’s Aesthetics as a Form of Cognition 356
24. Appendix: Li Zehou’s Life and Works 375
25. Contributors 379
26. Index 387