A Cloud Across the Pacific: Essays on the Clash Between Chinese and Western Political Theories TodayChinese University Press, 2005 - Всего страниц: 816 This book uncovers the basic contradictions between contemporary China's complex ideological marketplace and Western liberalism. It describes and puts into critical context three versions of Western liberalism (those of F. A. Hayek, John Rawls, and John Dunn), three versions of Chinese liberalism (those of Yang Kuo-shu, Li Qiang, and Ambrose Y.C. King), two versions of modern Confucian humanism (those of T'ang Ch, n-i, and Henry K.H. Woo), and various versions of Chinese Marxism, including Kao Li-k'o's in the early 1990s and some of the recent New Left writings. It shows that all these Chinese political theories, not only Chinese Marxism, depend on a number of premises at odds with Western liberalism, especially epistemological optimism and an extravagantly optimistic concept of political practicability. It also argues that not only these Chinese theories but also Western liberalism have failed to offer adequate normative guidelines for the improvement of political life. This study combines a deep understanding of the history of Chinese thought with a strong grasp of modern philosophical trends and an innovative methodology for the description and criticism of political theories. It will be useful to students of modern Chinese intellectual history, of political philosophy, of political culture, of the comparative study of cultures, and of U.S.-Chinese relations. |
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The Search | 1 |
Political Theories as Criticizable Discourses | 67 |
Discourses | 132 |
West | 145 |
Tang Chünis Rejection of Western | 185 |
Tangs Philosophical | 226 |
The Nature of Reason and the Objects | 235 |
f The Rational Analysis of Praxis and the Problem | 253 |
Hayeks Threefold Normative Order | 585 |
Hayeks View of History as a Struggle between Correct and Incorrect Reasoning | 592 |
Hayeks Utopianism and Belief in Transformation | 596 |
Conclusion | 598 |
Endnotes | 603 |
What Is a Rational Political Theory? A Critique | 607 |
The Problem of Rationality in the Design of Political Theories | 614 |
The Epistemological Demotion of Normative Ideas | 622 |
Endnotes | 278 |
H K H | 291 |
Maos Vision | 333 |
4 | 347 |
Kaos Thought in the Late 1990s | 362 |
An Outline of Lis Book | 388 |
The Problem of Ontological Individualism | 394 |
6 | 407 |
Taiwans Utopian Liberalism on the Eve | 431 |
A Critique | 503 |
The Problems of Precision and Opacity in | 516 |
Describing or Defining the Nature | 538 |
The Universal Nature of Human Nature and of Politics | 539 |
The Lack of Progress in History | 545 |
The Question of Agency | 554 |
Political Rationality and the Search for the Right Questions | 555 |
Endnotes | 565 |
A Critique | 569 |
Hayeks Epistemological Optimism | 574 |
Hayeks Teleological Conceptualization of History | 578 |
Rawls and the Initial Questions | 625 |
Rawlss Popperian Typology of Ideas and the Problem of Culturallyrooted Discourses | 629 |
The Problem of the Exercise Needed to Clarify Normative Ideas | 638 |
Rawlss Way of Privileging Ideas | 641 |
Reasonableness as Justice | 643 |
The Original Position and Reasonable Pluralism | 648 |
Juxtaposing Rawlss Concept of Political Rationality with an Alternative | 651 |
The Irrepressible Reappearance of Epistemological | 658 |
Western Philosophy on the Defensive? | 671 |
Endnote | 678 |
The Problem of a Persisting Discourse | 694 |
Do Tang | 719 |
Rortys Philosophy | 729 |
Rorty in Western and Chinese Critical Perspective | 735 |
The Failure of Philosophy East and West | 758 |
Endnotes | 764 |
Discourse 1 and the Chinese Conceptualization | 769 |
Glossary and Index | 793 |
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