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Contemporary Chinese Marxism Foundational Research Orientations
This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth survey of the foundational research orientations of contemporary Chinese Marxism. The chapters in this book not only attach importance to the exploration of classic Marxist texts but also explore the challenges posed on classic Marxist texts by modernity, and in doing so, highlight the relationship between Marxism and the traditional Chinese culture.
As a school of thought, Marxism has exerted tremendous influence on fields of humanities and social sciences over the course of its introduction, dissemination, and development. Through this volume, well established Chinese scholars from Mainland China also discuss contemporary Chinese Marxism in an interdisciplinary context. Further, this volume facilitates dialogues, exchanges, and collisions of ideas between researchers of contemporary Chinese Marxism on one side and the researchers of Western Marxism on the other.
This book will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Marxism, philosophy and sociology. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory.
Foreword
Ziyi Feng
Introduction
Chengbing Wang
1. Winning the hearts of the people with artistic masterpieces: An artistic aesthetic tradition of Chinese Marxism
Wang Yichuan
2. Contemporary Chinese axiology oriented towards the practice of reform and opening up
Wu Xiangdong
3. Textological studies and a new understanding of Marx’s thought in contemporary China
Jinfang Nie
4. One hundred years of Chinese dialectical logic: An academic history of logic relating to contemporary Chinese Marxism
Lei Chen and Chengbing Wang
5. The implications of the thinking paradigms of British neo-Marxism
Ji Xue and Zhongfang Tong
6. Law and reproduction: Louis Althusser’s criticism of capitalist law
Kefei Xu
7. Materialism as a fatal strategy: Jean Baudrillard’s critical path of modernity
Xiang Liu
8. Chinese and Western Marxist theories of modernity: Comparing and connecting
Liyin Yang
9. Adapting Marxism to outstanding traditional Chinese culture: History, consensus and future
Ying Liu
Afterword: Reflections on Contemporary Chinese Marxism
Chengbing Wang, Michael A. Peters, Wang Yichuan, Wu Xiangdong, Jinfang Nie, Zhang Libo, Ji Xue, Lei Chen, Liyin Yang, Ying Liu and Xiang Liu
Biography
Chengbing Wang (PhD) is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China and one of the editors of the journal Frontiers of Philosophy in China. His main areas of research include American pragmatism, postmodern philosophy, and philosophy of social identity. He has published more than one hundred articles, twenty monographs, and numerous translations. He is currently heading a major national project on the translation of the Philosophical Works of William James.
