Can I read A Philosophical Defense of Culture on EtoBox?

A Philosophical Defense of Culture by Shuchen Xiang; is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Philosophical Defense of Culture about?

Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Abbreviations 14 Introduction 16 Historical Reconstruction of Wen 19 The Contemporary Relevance of Cassirer and Confucianism 22 Existing Literature on Wen 28 Outline of Chapters 32 1 Humanism and Language: Cassirer and the Xici (系辞) 36 Xici: Humanism and Language (Wen 文) 38 Cassirer: Humanism and Language/Symbol-making 39 Naive Realism versus Symbolic Idealism 40 Six Characteristic Corollaries of Naive Realism 43 From Substance to Function 44 Cassirer’s Account of Functionalism 46 The Six Characteristics in History 47 Holism and Structuralism: Points 1, 2, 3, and 4 49 Language and Freedom: Points 5 and 6 54 Cassirer’s Linguistic Turn 59 Nature, Organism, and Ziran (自然) 61 2 Li Xiang Yi Jin Yi (立象以尽意): Giving (Symbolic) Form to Phenomena 66 Xiang (象) in the Xici 66 Symbols and Reality 68 Xici 2.2 71 Symbolic Pregnancy 72 Symbolic Pregnancy and Xici 2.2 76 Tian Ren He Yi (天人合一) and Symbolic Idealism 81 Symbolic Idealism and the Zhongyong (中庸) 85 The Universal and the Particular 87 Goethe’s Archetypal Phenomena (Urphänomene) 89 Language: The Concrete Universal 93 The Linguistic Turn of the Xici 95 3 Shi Yan Zhi (诗言志): Giving (Poetic) Form to Qing (情) 102

Author

Shuchen Xiang;

Language

EN