{"product_id":"the-quest-for-liberation-philosophy-and-the-making-of-world-culture-in-china-and-the-west-hardcover","title":"The Quest for Liberation: Philosophy and the Making of World Culture in China and the West","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eContemporary debate on cosmopolitanism routinely refers to Immanuel Kant as its intellectual origin. A group of Chinese and German-speaking thinkers in the early twentieth century, however, used classical Chinese philosophy as an alternative intellectual genealogy to reimagine ethics, politics, society, and modernity for the entire world. Their engagement with Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism broadens the scope of global intellectual history to include a non-European origin of concepts and ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDue to the differences in their local crises, the Chinese and the European stories are often narrated in separate national and cultural contexts. Bridging the critical divide between China and the West, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Quest for Liberation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e examines the thinkers’ shared interest in Chinese philosophy and their common effort to envision a world culture other than Western modernity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBreaking with the common logic of either studying the reception and adaptation of Western ideas in the East or critiquing the misrepresentation of the East in the West, Zhang’s book emphasizes entanglements between Chinese and European thinkers and highlights their quest for liberation in a globalizing world. Their visions of an ontological commons for everyone help us imagine a better world community in our time of global crises, beyond the clash of civilizations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis book is available from the publisher on an open access basis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expandev\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50340134945053,"sku":"9781531510350","price":159.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781531510350.jpg?v=1757515841","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/the-quest-for-liberation-philosophy-and-the-making-of-world-culture-in-china-and-the-west-hardcover","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}