The Fluidity of Modernity: "New Youth" Focusing on the Relationship Between the Individual, Society, and the State

Author: Zhang Baoming
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: This book is an academic monograph that studies the intellectual trajectory of New Youth. The relationship between the individual, the state, and society is a fundamental question in the history of thought. Their interconnections serve as both the starting point and the destination of humanistic concern. Scholars from humanities disciplines such as literature, history, and philosophy, as well as those engaged in other social sciences, cannot avoid this inquiry. The author is a renowned scholar with extensive expertise in the study of intellectual history. Given the intellectual depth, contemporary relevance, and forward-looking nature of his works, the academic community both at home and abroad has recognized him as a representative and self-reflective emerging figure. This book represents a profound and organic extension of the author's research on the history of 20th-century enlightenment thought. Using New Youth magazine as a reference, the author selects a critical juncture concerning modernity—the relationship between the individual, society, and the state—thereby providing a historically rooted and archaeologically meaningful intellectual excavation of the landscape of modernity. The author possesses a strong command of language, with a fresh, natural, and penetrating style. As a result, this rigorous academic monograph is also highly engaging to read.