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"Heavy Flesh" Author: Liu Xiaofeng Huaxia Publishing House
"Heavy Flesh" Author: Liu Xiaofeng Huaxia Publishing House
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"Heavy Flesh" is a classic work by the famous scholar Professor Liu Xiaofeng. Since its publication in early 1999, it has attracted the attention of the academic community. It has been reprinted many times and has been a best-seller. "Heavy Flesh" contains 8 essays by Professor Liu Xiaofeng. The author interprets the classics of a group of modern writers with a fresh and fluent style, and through re-narrative, makes the ethical issues that are accustomed to our lives become real problems. The narratives of outstanding narrative thinkers such as Büchner, Kundera, Kafka, and Kieslowski have come alive in Liu Xiaofeng's murmuring re-narrative, presenting their open meanings. This book explores the ethical situation in the context of modernity through re-narrative. "What is ethics? In fact, it is the life feeling with a certain concept as the meridian." The ethics based on the life feeling of the individual flesh in the world is different from the ethics we have understood in the past. The author analyzes and examines the ethics of modernity from the narratives of different writers, and then divides them into two forms of modern ethics, namely people's ethics and individual freedom ethics. Through different narratives of different writers, this book allows us to feel the difference between two different ethics.
About the Author
Professor Liu Xiaofeng (born in 1956) is from Chongqing. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Sichuan International Studies University (1982), Master of Philosophy from Peking University (1985), and Doctor of Theology from the University of Basel, Switzerland (1993). Since 1993, he has been a researcher at the Institute of Chinese Culture of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and an adjunct professor at the Institute of Comparative Literature of Peking University. Since 2002, he has been a visiting professor at the Department of Sinology of the University of Bonn, Germany. In 2003, he became a professor at the Department of Philosophy of Sun Yat-sen University and the director of the Center for Classical Studies.
He is currently the responsible professor of the School of Literature at Renmin University of China and the director of the Center for Research on Classical Civilization.
Social part-time job: President of the Chinese Society of Comparative Classics.
Main research and teaching directions: Ancient Greek and Roman literature and history, Chinese and Western classical poetics, and classical political philosophy.
Major works: Poetic Philosophy, Salvation and Freedom, Towards the Truth of the Cross, Introduction to Modern Social Theory, Heavy Flesh, Narrative of the Pentecost, Modern Man and His Enemies, Kairos: A Course in Ancient Greek, Picking All the Cold Branches, Confucianism and the Nation-State, Restarting Classical Poetics, Strauss's Signpost, Republic and Economics, Designing the Republic, The Meaning of the Hundred-Year Republic, Introduction to Comparative Classics, Wang's Achievements, Classics and the Dispute between Ancient and Modern Times, etc.
Editor-in-chief: "Classics and Interpretation" (CSSCI journal), "Classical Studies" (international academic journal), "Western Tradition: Classics and Interpretation" series, and "Chinese Tradition: Classics and Interpretation" series.
Awards: "Zhengze Scholar Award" (1998), Guangdong Province Outstanding Teacher Award (1987, 1988, 2006), "Tongshan Scholar Award" (2007), "Wu Yuzhang Outstanding Scholar Award" (2012).
