Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization (The Second Edition: A Historical Critique of Western Universalism)

Author: Zhang Xudong
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This book is a systematic and thought-provoking monograph on the history of ideas and critical theory of contemporary culture. It represents an attempt to integrate foreign teaching and research with domestic contextual thinking, more specifically, an effort to bridge the academic norms, discourse boundaries, and thought processes between Eastern and Western scholarship. The content is derived from two graduate courses offered in the spring and summer of 2002. One was a special seminar titled "Modernity and Identity: Universalism and Its Discontent" (：) at the Department of Comparative Literature, New York University, where the reading materials and teaching language were in English, targeting doctoral students in Comparative Literature and other humanities departments. The goal was to help students systematically understand the intellectual history, social history, and political philosophical foundations behind contemporary theory. The other was a series of lectures titled "Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization" () offered at the Institute of Comparative Literature and the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University, from May to June 2002, targeting graduate and doctoral students in Chinese Language and Literature and other humanities departments, with reading materials and teaching language in Chinese. This book is a compilation and revision based on these two languages and courses.