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This book presents a number of contemporary philosophical issues from a wide range of Chinese philosophical texts, figures, and sub-traditions that are usually not addressed in English studies of Chinese philosophical traditions.

• Cover
• Vital Post-Secular Perspectives on Chinese Philosophical Issues
• Vital Post-Secular Perspectives on Chinese Philosophical Issues
• Copyright
• Contents
• Permissions and Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Methodological Introduction
• Part I: Post-Secular Reflections on Recharacterizing Chinese Philosophical Traditions
  • Chapter 1
  • Post-Secular Insights into the Professional Philosopher Féng Yǒulán’s (1895–1990) Life and Works
    • The Pre-1949 Years: Féng as a Young and Prolific Professional Philosopher
    • Féng in the 1950s: Running through the Modern Chinese Marxist Gauntlet
    • Marxist Féng Yǒulán: Transmogrification in the Midst of Existential Terror
    • Post-Mao Féng: Intellectual Liberation, Philosophical Mysticism, and Living with a Checkered Past
    • Ends, Limits, and Ironies of Féng’s Philosophical Journey
    • Notes
  • Chapter 2
  • Aspects of a Relevant Philosophy of History for Chinese Philosophy in the Post-Secular Context of the PRC
    • Justifications for Asserting a Post-Marxist Philosophy of History
    • A Modern Vision of Chinese Philosophy and Its History: Hú Shì
    • Three Different Philosophies of History in Féng Yǒulán’s Works Dealing with Histories of Chinese Philosophy
    • Féng’s Identifying “Philosophy” in 1931: Insights, Inconsistencies, and Incoherence
    • Mapping Creativity into a Coherent Philosophy of History
    • Notes
• Part II: Post-Secular Insights into Ruist Studies
  • Chapter 3
  • Pre-Established Harmonies?
    • Interpretive Strategy: Tracing Semi-Ruist Semi-Authoritarian Ideology
    • Commentarial Complexities and Worldview in Zhāng Jūzhèng’s Sìshū zhíjiě
    • Culturally Transformative Possibilities and the Limits of Zhāng’s Ideology
    • Notes
  • Chapter 4
  • Post-Secular Revelations regarding the Dàxué and the Zhōngyōng
    • Distinguishing between Two Major Ruist Textual Traditions
    • Details of the Textual Reorganization and Emendations of the Dàxué and Zhōngyōng
    • Zhū Xī’s Controversial “New Text” of The Great Learning: Explanations and Revelations
    • How Modern Missionary-Scholars Handled the Diverse Textual Traditions
    • Concluding Comments: Contemporary Chinese Philosophers Challenging Zhū Xī’s Accounts
    • Notes
  • Chapter 5
  • On the Demystification of the Mysteries in Classical Ruism
    • Focusing on Classical Chinese Textual Hermeneutics: The Zhōngyōng Chapters 16 and 19 and Conundrums in Focusing the Familiar
    • A Non-Demythified Ruist Account of the Mystical in The Zhongyong: Zhāng Jūzhèng’s Alternative Ruist Theism and Polypneumatism
    • Concluding Assessments of the Secularism Promoted in Focusing the Familiar
    • Notes
• Part III: Aspects of Post-Traditional Chinese Society and Their Philosophical Reconsideration
  • Chapter 6
  • Post-Secular Critiques of Twentieth-Century Utopian Projects in China
    • Utopian Visions and Philosophical Traditions in the Twentieth-Century China
    • Three Utopian Visions in Post-Traditional Chinese Society
    • Dreaming of Hedonistic Uniformity: Assessing Kāng Yǒuwéi’s Radical Vision
    • People’s Communes And the Communist Dream: Reconsidering Máo Zédōng’s Utopian Phase during the Great Leap Forward
    • Critical Reflections on the Post-Máo Era One-Child Policy
    • Concluding Reflections: Modern Chinese Utopian Projects and Their Transmogrification of Personal and Familial Well-Being
    • Appendices
    • Notes
  • Chapter 7
  • Post-Secular Critique of the Contemporary Phenomenon of “Human Flesh Search [Engines]” in the PRC
    • A Comparative Ethical Approach Accompanied by Meta-Ethical Concerns
    • Characterizing the Recent Phenomena of Chinese “Human Flesh Search [Engines]”
    • Some Poignant Examples of Human Flesh Search Engines in the PRC
    • Ethical and Metaethical Quandaries Created by RRSS in the PRC
    • Appendix 1
    • Notes
  • Chapter 8
  • Post-Secular Ponderings on Sageliness and Saintliness
    • Questioning the Nature of the Hiatus between the Ideal and the Actual
    • Ranking Humanely Cultivated Persons (jūnzǐ) and Sages (shèngrén)
    • [Re]making Sageliness: Master Kǒng the Sage and Ways of Seeking Sageliness
    • A Modern Critically Assessed Conception of Ruist Sageliness and Its Implications
    • Comparing Critically Received Traditions about Sageliness and Saintliness
    • Four Possibilities of Synthesizing Sageliness and Saintliness
    • Ponderous Ponderings? Some Brief Concluding Summaries and Reflections
    • Notes
  • Conclusion
    • Post-Secular Reconsiderations of Chinese Philosophical Teachings and Traditions in the PRC
    • Post-Secular Affirmations about Contemporary Chinese Academic Philosophy and Its Context
    • Unconcluding Post-Secular Hopes—Things Yet to Do
    • Vital Post-Secular Perspectives from an Existential Viewpoint
    • A Final Unconcluding Reflection
    • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author