The Great Dragon Fantasy : A Lacanian Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Thought
Guanjun. Wu
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Singapore : : World Scientific Publishing Company, , 2014.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (417 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; About the Author; Introduction The Fantasmatic Narrative of Contemporary Chinese Thought; Assuming Personal Responsibility for Social Change; "China's Reality" and the Fantasmatic Space; Intellectual Inquiry from the "New Era" to the "Post-New Era"; Chapter 1 "Descendants of a Blurry-Eyed Dragon"; The Dragon That Lost Its Glory; The Fantasmatic Core of Clear-Sightedness; "There Is No Such Thing, Yet It Is True!"; The West That Makes the Chinese "Chinese"; Chapter 2 New Enlightenment as Modernization; "Modernization" as a Fantasmatic Window. - AcknowledgementsIndex. - Chapter 5 China's New Nationalism and Its Obscene CoreNationalism at the Gates; The "Bio-Operations" of Nationalist Discourse; Why Is Nationalism an Obscene Discourse?; What the Facts Do Not Tell Us...; Chapter 6 Narrating the Fantasmatic Past: Ancient and Recent; China's Civilizational Subjectivity: The Dragon Rises Again?; That Which Fixes the Splitting Between Knowledge and Belief; The Fantasy of the Eighties: "Self-Castration" and Perversion; Cynicism qua Pseudo-Activity; In Place of a Conclusion Traversing the Fantasy; Hegel's Two Faces; The End of Analysis; Glossary; References. - The "New Enlightenment" Interpretations of China's HistoryFrom New Enlightenment to River Elegy and "Confucian Capitalism"; Gadamer Versus Huntington; Chapter 3 "Traumatic" Encounters with Postmodernism; The Arrival of a "Post-New Era" and the "Loss of the Humanistic Spirit"; Richard Rorty Must Leave!; Post-modernization, or, Traditionalization?; Chapter 4 Liberals and New Leftists as "Discursive Enemies"; Liberalism and Its Critics; An Intellectual Debate Turning into a Spitting War; "The Question of Modernity": From Theoretical Critique to Linguistic Politics. - China has undergone a unique path of development in the post-Maoist era. Especially, the last decade witnessed China's rapid rise to economic wealth and superpower status vis-à-vis the severe developmental predicaments of the West (financial crises, socio-political turbulences, etc.). This book analyzes how the leading Chinese thinkers understand China's prosperity and rapid development today, and whether there is any hidden mechanism that has been playing a crucial role of forming contemporary Chinese thinkers' shared passionate endeavor of resuscitating classical Chinese ideas, and thus show
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| ISBN | 9789814417914. - 9814417912
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