Tang Junyi : : Confucian philosophy and the challenge of modernity / / by Thomas Frohlich.

• Superior document: Modern Chinese philosophy, v. 13
• Author: Fröhlich, Thomas, 1966-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Modern Chinese Philosophy 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Tang Junyi’s modern Confucianism ranks among the most ambitious philosophical projects in 20th century China. In Tang Junyi: Confucian Philosophy and the Challenge of Modernity , Thomas Fröhlich examines Tang Junyi's intellectual reaction to a time of cataclysmic change marked by two Chinese revolutions (1911 and 1949), two world wars, the Cold War period, rapid modernization in East Asia, and the experience of exile. The present study fundamentally questions widespread interpretations that depict modern Confucianism as essentially traditionalist and nationalistic. Thomas Fröhlich shows that Tang Junyi actually challenges such interpretations with an insightful understanding of the modern individual’s vulnerability, as well as a groundbreaking reinterpretation of Confucianism as the civil-theological foundation for liberal democracy in China.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Tang Junyi’s Intellectual Endeavor -- Critical Issues in Research on Modern Confucianism -- Common Perspectives on Tang Junyi’s Thought -- Exile, Modernity, and Cultural Patriotism -- The Theological Accentuation -- The Moral Vision -- Shifting the Foundations of Confucian Political Thought -- On Statehood -- Anticipating Democracy -- Civil Religion on a Confucian Basis -- Coming to Terms with History -- In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Totalitarian Challenge -- Appendix: Biographical Survey -- Bibliography -- Index.