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Draws on two different but strikingly similar streams in our world tradition to argue for the contemporary philosophical relevance of "culture." In A Philosophical Defense of Culture, Shuchen Xiang draws on the Confucian philosophy of "culture" and Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms to argue for the importance of "culture" as a philosophic paradigm. A defining ideal of Confucian-Chinese civilization, culture (wen) spans everything from natural patterns and the individual units that make up Chinese writing to literature and other refining vocations of the human being. Wen is thus the soul of Confucian-Chinese philosophy. Similarly, as a philosopher who bridged the classical age of German humanism and postwar modernity, Cassirer implored his and future generations to think of humankind in terms of their culture and to think of the human being as a "symbolic animal." The philosophies of culture of these two traditions, very much compatible, are of urgent relevance to our contemporary epoch. Xiang describes the similarity of their projects by way of their conception of the human being, her relationship to nature, the relationship of human culture to nature, the importance of

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Author

Shuchen Xiang; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; State University of New York Press

Publisher

State University of New York Press (SUNY Press)

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438483214

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, Science