Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index
Lu Xun and evolution
Published:
(c)1998
Publisher:
State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y
"This book studies one of the most important figures in modern Chinese intellectual history, China's greatest modern writer, Lu Xun (1881-1936). His trenchant criticisms of the China of his day still speak directly to what can be called, without...
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"This book studies one of the most important figures in modern Chinese intellectual history, China's greatest modern writer, Lu Xun (1881-1936). His trenchant criticisms of the China of his day still speak directly to what can be called, without hyperbole, the current crisis in philosophical and political thought in the People's Republic. It is also a study of a non-Western intellectual's struggle - in a time of crisis - to make practical sense of the "Darwinian Revolution," a revolution not limited to the West." "Although Lu Xun died more than sixty years ago, his work is still alive in China (more so than any American writer of the 1920s and 1930s is in the United States). He is viewed paradoxically as both an official icon and as a patron saint of dissent. This book is, therefore, about Lu Xun both in his lifetime and in his second lifetime - and it looks to his third. But it is not just about Lu Xun. It is about Lu Xun and evolution. As a philosophical critique of Lu Xun's thought, it looks to Lu Xun's struggle to make practical sense of evolution, a contradiction that forces "either/or" question on the Chinese, and on us all."--Jacket 1.A Mentor Once Removed1 --2.The Pen, Not the Scalpel or the Sword9 --3.To Change Men's Minds21 --4.Deaf Ears29 --5.The Riddle of the Universe37 --6.The History of Mankind67 --7.On Human Nature79 --8.Evolution and Ethics Again101 --9.The Evolution of Lu Xun131.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index. - Description based on print version record
1.A Mentor Once Removed12.The Pen, Not the Scalpel or the Sword93.To Change Men's Minds214.Deaf Ears295.The Riddle of the Universe376.The History of Mankind677.On Human Nature798.Evolution and Ethics Again1019.The Evolution of Lu Xun131.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index
1 - A Mentor Once Removed - 1 -- - 2 - The Pen, Not the Scalpel or the Sword - 9 -- - 3 - To Change Men's Minds - 21 -- - 4 - Deaf Ears - 29 -- - 5 - The Riddle of the Universe - 37 -- - 6 - The History of Mankind - 67 -- - 7 - On Human Nature - 79 -- - 8 - Evolution and Ethics Again - 101 -- - 9 - The Evolution of Lu Xun - 131
