Postmodernist Philosophy Review

Author: Zhao Guangwu
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Publish Date: 2000-03-01
Features: Postmodern philosophy, appealing to reverse thinking analysis methods, negates metaphysics, opposes foundationalism and essentialism in the form of rejecting materialism in modern and contemporary philosophy while inheriting its idealism tradition; it dissolves the principle of the unity and opposition of thinking and existence, denies the existence of any truth-seeking knowledge, believes there is no essence behind phenomena and no laws within history; in terms of worldview, it is characterized by idealism and metaphysics that promote subjectivity, interiority, and relativism. This book discusses the above viewpoints in five parts: Part I: Historical Conditions and Theoretical Sources of Postmodernist Philosophy; Part II: Main Schools of Postmodernist Philosophy; Part III: Main Views of Postmodernist Philosophy; Part IV: Comparison of Postmodernist Philosophical Research Methodologies in China and Abroad; Part V: Postmodernism and Cultural Construction in Contemporary China.