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END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20360309T030000 RDATE:20361102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20370308T030000 RDATE:20371101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:218702adc557af067a1f41c3e9840358 CATEGORIES:“Speaking of China” Lecture CREATED:20210114T204243 SUMMARY:A Philosophical Defense of Culture: Perspectives from Confucianism and Cassirer (Shuchen Xiang, Peking University, China) LOCATION:Zoom (registration required) DESCRIPTION:The video recording of this talk can be found on our videos (Videos) page.\ nThis talk is co-sponsored by Rutgers Global-China Office and the Confucius Institute. It is open to the public, but registration is required. Click < a href="https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlceusqjorG9NOq64JwT1i4H mq5hN_vqzH">here to register.\n\nAbstract:\nThis talk is based on Shuch en Xiang's (项舒晨) upcoming book A Philosophical Defense of Culture: Perspect ives from Confucianism and Cassirer (SUNY 2021). In her book, Xiang draws o n the Confucian philosophy of “culture” and Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms to argue for the importance of “culture” as a philosophic pa radigm. A defining ideal of Confucian-Chinese civilization, culture (wen) s pans everything from natural patterns and the individual units that make up Chinese writing to literature and other refining vocations of the human be ing. Wen is thus the soul of Confucian-Chinese philosophy. Similarly, as a philosopher who bridged the classical age of German humanism and postwar mo dernity, Cassirer implored his and future generations to think of humankind in terms of their culture and to think of the human being as a “symbolic a nimal.” The philosophies of culture of these two traditions, very much comp atible, are of urgent relevance to our contemporary epoch. Xiang describes the similarity of their projects by way of their conception of the human be ing, her relationship to nature, the relationship of human culture to natur e, the importance of cultural pluralism, and the role of the arts in human life, as well as the metaphysical frameworks that gave rise to such concept ions. Combining textual exegesis in classical Chinese texts and an expositi on of Cassirer’s most important insights against the backdrop of post–Kanti an philosophy, this book is philosophy written in a cosmopolitan mode, argu ing for the contemporary philosophical relevance of “culture” by drawing on and bringing together two different but strikingly similar streams in our world tradition.\nBio:\nShuchen Xiang is an assistant professor in the Depa rtment of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Peking University in Beijing, China. Xiang received her bachelor's degree in architecture from the Unive rsity of Cambridge, MA in comparative literature from Penn State University , MA in philosophy from University of Hawaii and Ph.D. in philosophy from t he Humboldt University, Berlin and King's College London. She is the author of A Philosophical Defense of Culture: Perspectives from Confucianism and Cassirer (SUNY 2021) and articles in various areas of philosophy, including comparative philosophy, history of Western philosophy, metaphysics, cassic al Chinese philosophy, and critical philosophy of race.\nRegistration:\nThe event is open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to r egister (https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlceusqjorG9NOq64JwT1i4 Hmq5hN_vqzH). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email cont aining information about joining the meeting.\n\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The video recording of this talk can be found on our videos page.
This talk is co-sponsored by Rutgers Global-China Office and the Confucius Institute. It is open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to regist er.
Abstract:
This talk is based on Shuchen Xiang's (项舒晨) upcoming book A Philos ophical Defense of Culture: Perspectives from Confucianism and Cassire r (SUNY 2021). In her book, Xiang draws on the Confucian philosop hy of “culture” and Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms to argue for the importance of “culture” as a philosophic paradigm. A defining ideal of Confucian-Chinese civilization, culture (wen) spans everything from natural patterns and the individual units that make up Chinese writin g to literature and other refining vocations of the human being. W en is thus the soul of Confucian-Chinese philosophy. Similarly, a s a philosopher who bridged the classical age of German humanism and postwa r modernity, Cassirer implored his and future generations to think of human kind in terms of their culture and to think of the human being as a “symbol ic animal.” The philosophies of culture of these two traditions, very much compatible, are of urgent relevance to our contemporary epoch. Xiang descri bes the similarity of their projects by way of their conception of the huma n being, her relationship to nature, the relationship of human culture to n ature, the importance of cultural pluralism, and the role of the arts in hu man life, as well as the metaphysical frameworks that gave rise to such con ceptions. Combining textual exegesis in classical Chinese texts and an expo sition of Cassirer’s most important insights against the backdrop of post–K antian philosophy, this book is philosophy written in a cosmopolitan mode, arguing for the contemporary philosophical relevance of “culture” by drawin g on and bringing together two different but strikingly similar streams in our world tradition.
Bio:
Shuc hen Xiang is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Rel igious Studies at Peking University in Beijing, China. Xiang received her b achelor's degree in architecture from the University of Cambridge, MA in co mparative literature from Penn State University, MA in philosophy from Univ ersity of Hawaii and Ph.D. in philosophy from the Humboldt University, Berl in and King's College London. She is the author of A Philosophical Defense of Culture: Perspectives from Confucianism and Cassirer (SUNY 2021) and articles in various areas of philosophy, including com parative philosophy, history of Western philosophy, metaphysics, cassical C hinese philosophy, and critical philosophy of race.
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