Brusadelli

Confucian Concord

Reform, Utopia and Global Teleology in Kang Youwei's <i>Datong Shu</i>

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Buch. Hardcover

2020

X, 198 S.

In englischer Sprache

Brill. ISBN 9789004434448

Format (B x L): 15,5 x 23,5 cm

Gewicht: 437 g

Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Ideas, History, and Modern China; 24

Produktbeschreibung

In Confucian Concord, Federico Brusadelli offers an intellectual analysis of the Datong Shu. Written by Kang Youwei (1858-1927) and conceived as his most esoteric and comprehensive legacy to posterity, the book was eventually published posthumously, in 1935, considered “too advanced for the times” in Kang’s own opinion.

Connecting Datong Shu to its author’s intellectual biography and framing it within the intellectual and political debate of the time, Brusadelli investigates the conceptual and philosophical implications of Kang’s ‘global prophecy’, showing how an apparently ‘utopian’ and ‘escapist’ piece of literature was actually an attempt to save (at least ideally) the imperial political order, updating the traditional Confucian universalism to a new, ‘modern’ world.