The Reception of Kant in Modern China Abstract

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Hall of University Aix-Marseille, site Schuman (from left to right: Liu Lun, Gilles Campagnolo, Bai Guimei, Jean-Sébastien Gharbi)

Site J. Ferry, 14 av. Jules Ferry, Aix en Provence
Meeting’s room / "Salle de Réunion", 2d floor at 4:30 pm
Speaker: Xu Bo (Peking University (School of Government))

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Meeting’s room, speaker: M. Xu Bo

The Reception of Kant in Modern China Abstract:

The present examination of the Chinese reception of Kant should be considered as a part of an effort in understanding the nature of China’s modernization from the perspective of the history of thought.
After giving a historical account organized by four stages (the early reception 1900s-1930s, the New-Confucian reception 1940s and afterwards in Taiwan, the Marxist reception 1950s-1970s, and the liberal reception 1980s onwards), I will try to draw some reflections on what accounts for the spontaneity that China has exhibited in her reception of Kantian, and Western thought in general.

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M. Xu Bo and Director Nicolas Gravel (AMU/GREQAM)