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Author Pusey, James Reeve, 1940-

Title Lu Xun and evolution / James Reeve Pusey
Published Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 249 pages)
Series SUNY series in philosophy and biology
SUNY series in philosophy and biology.
Contents 1. A Mentor Once Removed 1 -- 2. The Pen, Not the Scalpel or the Sword 9 -- 3. To Change Men's Minds 21 -- 4. Deaf Ears 29 -- 5. The Riddle of the Universe 37 -- 6. The History of Mankind 67 -- 7. On Human Nature 79 -- 8. Evolution and Ethics Again 101 -- 9. The Evolution of Lu Xun 131
Summary "This book studies one of the most important figures in modern Chinese intellectual history, China's greatest modern writer, Lu Xun (1881-1936). His trenchant criticisms of the China of his day still speak directly to what can be called, without hyperbole, the current crisis in philosophical and political thought in the People's Republic. It is also a study of a non-Western intellectual's struggle - in a time of crisis - to make practical sense of the "Darwinian Revolution," a revolution not limited to the West." "Although Lu Xun died more than sixty years ago, his work is still alive in China (more so than any American writer of the 1920s and 1930s is in the United States). He is viewed paradoxically as both an official icon and as a patron saint of dissent. This book is, therefore, about Lu Xun both in his lifetime and in his second lifetime - and it looks to his third. But it is not just about Lu Xun. It is about Lu Xun and evolution. As a philosophical critique of Lu Xun's thought, it looks to Lu Xun's struggle to make practical sense of evolution, a contradiction that forces "either/or" question on the Chinese, and on us all."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index
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Subject Lu, Xun, 1881-1936 -- Criticism and interpretation
Lu, Xun, 1881-1936 -- Views on evolution
Lu, Xun, 1881-1936
Social Darwinism -- China
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Evolution
Social Darwinism
China
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97013018
ISBN 0585075018
9780585075013
1438416601
9781438416601