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Informationen zum Autor Zehou Li (Author) Li Zehou was a key figure in the intellectual foment of the 1980s. A philosopher of aesthetics and historian of Chinese thought, as well as China's preeminent authority on Kant, Li is the author of The Path of Beauty: A Study of Chinese Aesthetics (1995), and Four Essays on Aesthetics: Toward a Global View (with Jane Cauvel; Lexington Books, 2006). A senior research fellow and retired professor of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Li has since 1991 resided in the United States, where he makes his home in Boulder, Colorado. Maija Bell Samei (Translator) Maija Bell Samei is an independent scholar. She is the author of Gendered Persona and the Poetic Voice: The Abandoned Woman in Early Chinese Song Lyrics (Lexington Books, 2004) and holds a doctorate in Chinese literature from the University of Michigan. Klappentext An introduction to philosophy of Li Zezhou, one of the contemporary China's foremost intellectuals. It presents Li's synthesis of Chinese aesthetic thought, from ancient times to the early modern period, incorporating pre-Confucian and Confucian ideas, Daoism, Chan Buddhism, and the influence of Western philosophy during the late-imperial period. Zusammenfassung An introduction to philosophy of Li Zezhou! one of the contemporary China's foremost intellectuals. It presents Li's synthesis of Chinese aesthetic thought! from ancient times to the early modern period! incorporating pre-Confucian and Confucian ideas! Daoism! Chan Buddhism! and the influence of Western philosophy during the late-imperial period.
