Marxist Philosophy in China : From Qu Qiubai to Mao Zedong, by Nick Knight

March 16, 2017 adminReligious Spiritual Eastern Philosophy

By Nick Knight

This publication recounts the historical past of Marxist philosophy in China among 1923 and 1945 during the writings and actions of 4 philosophers: Qu Qiubai, Ai Siqi, Li Da and Mao Zedong. of those philosophers – Qu and Mao – have been additionally political activists and leaders, yet their contribution to this historical past is as vital, if no more so, than the contribution of Ai and Li who have been predominantly philosophers and students. The inclusion of Qu and Mao underlines the intimate connection among philosophy and politics within the progressive flow in China. it isn't attainable to talk credibly of Marxist philosophy in China with out contemplating the political context during which its advent, elaboration and dissemination proceeded. certainly, all the philosophers thought of during this publication repudiated the proposal that the learn of philosophy was once a scholastic highbrow workout with out political importance. each one of those philosophers looked himself as a innovative, and thought of philosophy to be invaluable accurately since it might facilitate a comprehension of the realm and so speed up efforts to alter it. through an identical token, each one of those philosophers took philosophy heavily; each one bent his brain to the daunting job of studying the arcane and labyrinthian philosophical process of dialectical materialism. Philosophy may good be political, they believed, yet this was once no excuse for philosophical dilettantism.

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