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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

East Asian Languages and Cultures

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Andreacchio, Marco Antonio

Contributors dc:contributor

• Mayer, Alexander L.

• Literature, Asian
• Philosophy
• Political Science, General

Identifier

(UMI)AAI3314722

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72563