Abstract
The Chinese concept of shi（势）, which means momentum or tendency, used to be a key philosophical concept in traditional Chinese scholarship. This paper studies three relatively unnoticed cases of modern reconstruction of the concept of shi in the three interrelated fields of philosophy, history, and literature. Drawing on the criticisms of the Western metaphysical tradition by Heidegger and Derrida, this paper aims to demonstrate how a part of modern Chinese philosophy has fallen under the strong influences of German Idealism and has thus been metaphysically transformed into a “a-historical” kind of philosophy.
| Translated title of the contribution | The Concept of shi （勢） or Momentum and Propensity of Things: 一個重審現代與時間觀之關系的概念 |
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| Original language | Chinese (Simplified) |
| Pages (from-to) | 21-43 |
| Journal | 开放时代 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2010 |
Research Keywords
- 势
- 时势
- 德意志观念论之中国化
- 形而上学时间观
- 历史性
- shi
- tendency in a situation
- Chinese assimilation of German Idealism
- the metaphysical view of time
- historicity