Confucian Concord: Reform, Utopia and Global Teleology in Kang Youwei's Datong Shu

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43444-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Ideas, History, and Modern Chi

In Confucian Concord, Federico Brusadelli offers an intellectual analysis of the Datong Shu. Written by Kang Youwei (1858-1927) and conceived as his most esoteric and comprehensive legacy to posterity, the book was eventually published posthumously, in 1935, considered “too advanced for the times” in Kang’s own opinion.

Connecting Datong Shu to its author’s intellectual biography and framing it within the intellectual and political debate of the time, Brusadelli investigates the conceptual and philosophical implications of Kang’s ‘global prophecy’, showing how an apparently ‘utopian’ and ‘escapist’ piece of literature was actually an attempt to save (at least ideally) the imperial political order, updating the traditional Confucian universalism to a new, ‘modern’ world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brusadelli, Federico

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

part 1: Roots

1 The Sage and the Unicorn: Confucian Progressivism and Esoteric Classicism

2 Indra’s Net: Buddhism and the Hidden Face of Kang’s Confucianism

3 State and Science: The Weight of the West

part 2: Threads

4 Nation: Defending Universalism from the Builders of Borders

5 Democracy: “You Don’t Wear A Fur in Summer”. Between Utopianism and Pragmatism

6 Socialism: Confucian Equality, from the Well–fields to the Communes

part 3: Legacies

7 The Red Concord: Kang Youwei and Mao Zedong, Meeting in the Land of Utopia?

8 A Datong for the Third Millennium: Globalism versus Nationalism

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Federico Brusadelli, Ph.D. (2016), University of Naples “L’Orientale”, is Lecturer in Sinology at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg.