Dear reader,
You are warmly invited to participate in the next lecture of our 2021/2022 lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.
Wang Fan-sen 王汎森 (Academician, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for History and Philology, Academia Sinica) will speak about The Creativeness of Modern Chinese Conservative Thinkers 近代保守思想家的創造性
Wang Fan-sen 王汎森 (Academician, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for History and Philology, Academia Sinica) will speak about The Creativeness of Modern Chinese Conservative Thinkers 近代保守思想家的創造性
Time: June 10, 2022, 10:00 AM CEST
On Zoom: For registration (required), please use this Zoom link.
Abstract
近代中國保守思想家中至少可以區分成兩類，第一類是本能地反對任何改變現狀的思想，第二類是回到一個重要的思想基盤（如宋明理學、大乘佛學）上戰鬥。在這次演講中，我想討論第二類思想家，以宋育仁（1859-1931）、熊十力（1885-1968）、唐文治（1865-1954）、劉咸炘（1896-1932）、錢穆（1895-1990）等人為例，討論一個思想史上的問題：當晚清以來的新派一直在變的時候，反對或批評他們的人，其實也一直在變換他們的言論，同時也變換他們對傳統的解釋，以便對應挑戰。此外，我在比較仔細地審視他們的思路之後，認為他們不只是「回到本來」的樣子，而是有一個微妙的新創過程。譬如他們有時候會用「提高一格法」，把儒家思想，尤其是宋明理學，作一種新的調整、詮釋。借用卡夫卡的話：「當你凝視深淵時，深淵也在凝視你」。This lecture series is jointly organized by
Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider, University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, University of Hamburg
CeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
Asia-Africa-Institute, Department for Chinese Language and Culture, Hamburg University
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen
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