Speech and Nature: An Introduction to the Study of Traditional Chinese Scholarship
An authentic introduction to the scholarship of traditional China must proceed through an uprooting of the ideological obstacles or peculiarly modern biases ordinarily preventing us from understanding writers of the pre-modern past as they understood themselves. As the upshot of the unfolding of modernity, our age is dominated by the systematic rejection (not merely a fateful forgetfulness) of the very possibility---explored in all seriousness throughout China's pre-modern past---of a form of scholarship that attains to permanent features of reality underlying the "external," spatio-temporal "life-world" ( Lebenswelt)1 of experience.
Literature, Asian, Philosophy, Political Science, General
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign