The Complete Works of Zhu Guangqian - Volume 2

Author: Zhu Guangqian
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Publish Date: 1996-10-01
Features: The Complete Works of Zhu Guangqian, written by Zhu Guangqian, published by Anhui Education Press from August 1987 to December 1992, with a total of 7 million words. It consists of 20 volumes. The first ten volumes include all of Zhu Guangqian's works, Volume 1 includes Twelve Letters to Youth, Schools of Abnormal Psychology, and Psychology of Art. Twelve Letters to Youth is the author's breakthrough work. Volume 2 includes On Beauty, Schools of Abnormal Psychology, and Psychology of Tragedy. Psychology of Tragedy was written in English during the author's doctoral studies in France and published in 1933. It was translated into Chinese by Zhang Longxi in 1983 and published by People's Literature Publishing House. Volume 3 includes On Poetry, Me and Literature and Others. Me and Literature and Others is an expanded edition of Mengshi Literary Anthology. Volume 4 includes On Self-Cultivation, On Literature, A Review of Croce's Philosophy, and the revised edition. Volume 5 includes A Collection of Critical Essays on Aesthetics, A Brief Talk on Aesthetics, and Gleaning from Aesthetics. A Collection of Critical Essays on Aesthetics contains 10 essays written by the author during the 1950s aesthetic debate. A Brief Talk on Aesthetics can be considered a sequel to On Beauty. Volumes 6 and 7 include the revised editions of the upper and lower volumes of A History of Western Aesthetics, respectively, and also include relevant parts of the unfinished manuscript of Appendix to A History of Western Aesthetics. Volumes 8, 9, and 10 include articles and letters written by the author from 1921 to 1937, 1938 to 1949, and 1950 to 1987, respectively. Volumes 11 to 20 include all of the author's translations. The eleventh volume includes [French] Paul Bourdieu's Cédric and Céleste (now translated as Cédric and Céleste), [Italian] Croce's Aesthetic Principles (revised edition), and [American] Harold R. Halpern's The Social Origins of Art. Volume 12 includes [Greek] Plato's Dialogues on Art (revised edition) and Another Island of England. Volumes 13 to 16 include [German] Hegel's Aesthetics. Volume 17 includes [German] Lessing's Laocoon and [German] Eckmann's Conversations with Goethe (selected translation). Volumes 18 and 19 include [Italian] Vico's The New Science. The 20th volume includes the author's individual translations that were published in newspapers and magazines but were not collected into books. (Xu Zhenxuan)