{"product_id":"the-quest-for-liberation-philosophy-and-the-making-of-world-culture-in-china-and-the-west-paperback","title":"The Quest for Liberation: Philosophy and the Making of World Culture in China and the West - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChunjie Zhang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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, \u003ci\u003eThe Quest for Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e examines the thinkers' shared interest in Chinese philosophy and their common effort to envision a world culture other than Western modernity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is available from the publisher on an open access basis.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Groundbreaking on a grand philosophical scale, \u003ci\u003eThe Quest for Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e shows how German and Chinese thinkers drew on each other in search of emancipation from the confines of their own traditions. The book goes beyond comparison to articulate a horizon of exchange, mutual learning, and convergence between East and West in search of broader horizons of world culture. Zhang's extraordinary polyglot proficiency and knowledge of major thinkers in the West and East makes for an outstanding intellectual history: bold, provocative, and admirable\"--\u003cb\u003eBan Wang\u003c\/b\u003e, Stanford University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An excellent intervention into the burgeoning scholarship on German and Asian studies, Chunjie Zhang's \u003ci\u003eThe Quest for Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e shows us how Chinese and German intellectuals harnessed each other's philosophical traditions to rethink economics, ethics, politics, and spirituality in a quest for global justice over imperial hegemony.\"--\u003cb\u003eGlenn Penny\u003c\/b\u003e, UCLA \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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, \u003ci\u003eThe Quest for Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e examines the thinkers' shared interest in Chinese philosophy and their common effort to envision a world culture other than Western modernity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChunjie Zhang\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChunjie Zhang \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTransculturality and German Discourse in the Age\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof European Colonialism \u003c\/i\u003e(2017), editor of \u003ci\u003eComposing Modernist Connections\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ein China and Europe \u003c\/i\u003e(2019), and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eGender and German Colonialism: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIntimacies, Accountabilities, and Intersections \u003c\/i\u003e(2023), \u003ci\u003eAesthetics and\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePolitics in the Wake of the Enlightenment \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe Germanic Review \u003c\/i\u003e2020), and \u003ci\u003eAsian German Studies \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eGerman Quarterly \u003c\/i\u003e2020). She coedits the book series \"Asia, Europe, and Global Connections\" (Routledge).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45519503720550,"sku":"9781531510367","price":69.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/pLmMNEr7Z19781531510367.webp?v=1776437432","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-quest-for-liberation-philosophy-and-the-making-of-world-culture-in-china-and-the-west-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}