Chinoiserie and The (Un)staging of French Hegelianism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12878475 |
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| Authors | Yan Fang (0009-0008-3325-6973, Central China Normal University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-96 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-9292 • E-ISSN: 1740-9306 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17409292.2024.2272514 |
| OpenAlex | W4390537654 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
China and Maoism were intertwined with the fate of French Hegelianism due to Louis Althusser's ceaseless effort of bundling them with his anti-Hegelian project. Althusser reinvented Hegelianism as a matrix of One to challenge Western metaphysical tradition, which laid the ground for the continuous involvement between China/Maoism and the core concerns of contemporary French theory, namely differences, anti-determination, anti-reductivism, anti-essentialism, and anti-teleology. Althusser harnessed the complexity of revolutionary China and Maoist difference and unevenness to remake a Marxism of difference and a non-teleological imagination of history; paradoxically, he constrained their momentum at least in the period of For Marx and Reading Capital
Archaeology · Art · China · Epistemology · Essentialism · Hegelianism · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphysics · Reading (process · Teleology · History · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci
| Highly cited | No |
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