Walk My Own Path: A Collection of Conversations

Author: Li Zehou
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book collects various prefaces, postfaces, essays, speech outlines, lecture records, interview records, and more by the author. The content includes personal life accounts, academic experiences or insights, comments and opinions on various views, issues, or tendencies of the past and present. The pieces vary in length and topic, some written spontaneously or spoken off the cuff, giving the impression of being more straightforward, intimate, and authentic. The author emphasizes micro-topics and empirical research in the book, proposing "learn some formal logic and plane geometry," opposing obscure and mystical writing styles, and advocating against grand yet empty discussions about the East and the West. Among them, discussions on poetry, subjectivity, "breaking the supreme status of the world," pluralism of methodologies, "Western form with Chinese content," and debates on Marxism reflect certain historical traces and difficult steps of the past two or three decades from a personal micro-perspective, offering material for reflection and lament.