Transcendence in Modern Times

Author: (Japanese) Takeuchi Yoshimi / Li Dongmu et al
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: As one of Japan's modern important thinkers, Takeuchi Yoshimi not only possesses a profound understanding of modern Chinese thought and literature but also has a latent and far-reaching influence on the formation of modern Japanese thought. His intellectual approach of pursuing "being in a state of vigorous vitality" and his fundamental skepticism and resistance to the institutional nature of academic knowledge production have made his intellectual stance completely non-institutionalized. This has also made him, like Lu Xun whom he revered throughout his life, a thinker warrior rather than just a "scholar." This book selects several representative works written by the author from the 1940s to the 1960s (including the famous essays "Lu Xun" and "The Overcoming of Modernity"), revealing the formation and development of Takeuchi Yoshimi's intellectual approach and intellectual stance during that turbulent historical period, as well as his consistent and unique intellectual substance. As one of Japan's modern important thinkers, Takeuchi Yoshimi not only possesses a profound understanding of modern Chinese thought and literature but also has a latent and far-reaching influence on the formation of modern Japanese thought. His intellectual approach of pursuing "being in a state of vigorous vitality" and his fundamental skepticism and resistance to the institutional nature of academic knowledge production have made his intellectual stance completely non-institutionalized. This has also made him, like Lu Xun whom he revered throughout his life, a thinker warrior rather than just a "scholar." This book selects several representative works written by the author from the 1940s to the 1960s (including the famous essays "Lu Xun" and "The Overcoming of Modernity"), revealing the formation and development of Takeuchi Yoshimi's intellectual approach and intellectual stance during that turbulent historical period, as well as his consistent and unique intellectual substance.