Chinese Dialectics: From Yijing to MarxismLexington Books, 2005 - 237 pages Dialectical thought is at the core of Karl Marx's work and all subsequent attempts to build on his legacy: Marxism. And, arguably, Marx's special departure into dialectics represents an anomaly in that tradition and all of Western philosophy. Marxism finds its philosophers in the academy; in trade unions; in former soviet states; in industrial and non-industrial nations and this makes it distinct from all other modern philosophies. It is certainly the most international modern philosophical movement. Chinese Dialectics From Yijing to Marxism is an unparalleled investigation into the conversation between Western Marxism and Chinese, or Eastern Marxism. An autochthonous version of Marxism persists in China coming to fruition through the work of Mao Zedong. Chenshan Tian contends that the conversation between Eastern and Western Marxism results in a striking feature of dialectics that pervades the everyday thinking and speech of ordinary persons in China. No study to date has undertaken the task of tracing the development of Marxism in China through it's ancient philosophical texts. This book is absolutely essential reading in the disciplines of comparative political theory, philosophy, and Asian studies. |
Contents
Tongbian A Chinese Strand of Thought | 21 |
Marxism in China Initial Encounters | 47 |
Tongbian in Preliminary Reading of Dialectics | 71 |
Qu Qiubais Reading of Dialectical Materialism | 87 |
Popularizing Dialectical Materialism | 107 |
Ai Siqi Sinifying Dialectical Materialism | 127 |
Mao Zedong The Mature Formulation of Dialectical Materialism | 143 |
Marxian Dialectics after Mao | 173 |
Glossary | 185 |
Bibliography | 211 |
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Page 16 - The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.