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The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel: Essays on Political Philosophy in Our Modern Era of Interacting Cultures

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By Thomas A. Metzger
2012
Published by: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
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The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel opens up a new way of pursuing the critical development of political philosophy in today’s intercultural intellectual arena. Metzger holds that political philosophies are linguistically unavoidable efforts to infer the principles of morally legitimate government from a maximally enlightened conceptualization of the universal human condition. Because these efforts depend on a vocabulary embodying culturally inherited premises, textual analysis uncovering these premises and debate about how they should be revised are crucial for the improvement of political philosophy.

Table of Contents

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Title Page, Copyright Page

pp. 1-4

Dedication

pp. 5-6

Contents

pp. vii-xv

Foreword

pp. xvii-xxiii

1. Introduction: Political Rationality and the Uncovering of Culturally Inherited Premises

pp. 1-223

2. The Problem of Factual and Normative Continuity with the Confucian Tradition in Modern Chinese Thought

pp. 225-273

3. Selfhood and Authority in Neo-Confucian Political Culture

pp. 275-303

4. Confucian Thought and the Modern Chinese Quest for Moral Autonomy

pp. 305-346

5. Interpreting the Hermeneutic Turn: A “Neo-Hegelian” Critique of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Hermeneutic Philosophy and of Liu Xiao-gan’s Critique of It

pp. 347-443

6. Mou Zong-san and the Four Premises: Putting His Political Philosophy into Critical Perspective

pp. 445-508

7. How Serious Is the Divergence between Western Liberalism and the Political Logic of Chinese Civilization? A Critique of Stephen C. Angle’s Human Rights and Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry1

pp. 509-534

8. The Contemporary Predicament of Political Philosophy East and West: The Epistemological Implications of Culture

pp. 535-607

9. Limited Distrust of Reason as a Prerequisite of Cultural Convergence: Weighing Professor Lao Sze-kwang’s Concept of the Divergence between “The Confucian Intellectual Tradition” and “Modern Culture”1

pp. 609-666

10. In Defense of Political Philosophy: Responding to Some Recent Remarks by Professor Donald J. Munro

pp. 667-682

11. The Cunning of Unreason in the Ivory Tower as well as the Marble Citadel: A Review of John Dunn’s Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy

pp. 683-706

12. Overdosing on Iconoclasm: A Review of Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason1

pp. 707-715

13. Rethinking U.S.-Chinese Relations (2007)

pp. 717-729

14. Understanding the Taiwan Experience: An Historical Perspective (1989)

pp. 731-758

15. Acknowledgments and Advertisements: A 1994 Self-Appraisal

pp. 759-774

Glossary and Index

pp. 775-795
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