New Confucianism: A Critical Examination - Makeham, J.

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Résumé :
This collection of essays explores the development of the New Confucianism movement during the twentieth-century and questions whether it is, in fact, a distinctly new intellectual movement or one that has been mostly retrospectively created. The questions that contributors to this book seek to answer about this neo-conservative philosophical movement include: 'What has been the cross-fertilization between Chinese scholars in China and overseas made possible by the shared discourse of Confucianism?'; 'To what extent does this discourse transcend geographical, political, cultural, and ideological divides?'; 'Why do so many Chinese intellectuals equate Confucianism with Chinese cultural identity?'; and 'Does the Confucian revival of the 1990s in China and Taiwan represent a genuine philosophical renaissance or a resurgence in interest based on political and cultural factors?'.

Biographie:
JOHN MAKEHAM is Reader in Chinese, Centre for Asian Studies, Adelaide University. For most of the last decade he has worked in the area of pre-modern Confucian intellectual history. Between 1993-2001 he studied the Chinese commentary tradition on the Analects from the second to the nineteenth centuries, a period substantially contemporaneous with the rise and decline of scriptural Confucianism (Transmitters and Creators: Chinese Commentators and Commentaries on the Analects, Harvard Asia Center, 2003). His current research project on contemporary discourse on Confucianism is a direct outgrowth of his work on early periods in Confucian intellectual history. He has also published Name and Actuality in Early Chinese Thought (SUNY, 1994) and a translation of the Han Dynasty Confucian thinker Xu Gan's (170-217) Balanced Discourses (Yale, 2002)....

Sommaire:
Introduction PART ONE The Retrospective Creation of New Confucianism; J.Makeham The New Daotong; J.Makeham PART TWO Reconstructing the Confucian Ideal in 1980s China: the 'Culture Craze and New Confucianism; S.Xianlin Li Zehou and New Confucianism; S.Chan PART THREE What is Confucian and New about the Thought of Mou Zongsan?; S.Chan A Modern Chinese Philosophy Built Upon Critically Received Traditions: Feng Youlan's New Principle-centered Learning and the Question of its Relationship to Contemporary New Ruist (Confucian) Philosophies; L.Pfister PART FOUR The Last Buddhist: The Philosophy of Liang Shuming; J.Hanafin Xiong Shili's Metaphysics; N.Yu-kwan