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"The Order of Fantasy" Subtitle: Critical Theory and Contemporary Chinese Literary Culture Author: Zhang Xudong Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House
"The Order of Fantasy" Subtitle: Critical Theory and Contemporary Chinese Literary Culture Author: Zhang Xudong Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
★Selected achievements of Zhang Xudong’s 30-year academic career.
★The common experiences and specific experiences of the Chinese intellectual community since the 1980s; the pursuit of cultural and political awareness by intellectuals in the past 30 years.
★Interpret the theories of famous writers such as Lukacs, Benjamin, Lacan, Said, Bourdieu, and Jameson; reinterpret the modern and contemporary Chinese literary traditions such as Lu Xun, Wang Anyi, and Ge Fei.
This volume brings together Professor Zhang Xudong's series of achievements in cultural theory and critical practice from the 1980s to the early 21st century, interpreting the literary research, aesthetic exploration and cultural analysis of theorists such as Lukacs, Benjamin, Lacan, Said, Bourdieu, and Jameson, and explaining the various "new trends" and "experiments" in contemporary Chinese thought and culture. By carefully reading individual text cases or ideological debates, the book provides an overall grasp and critical thinking of Western learning and Chinese culture in the context of a constantly changing cultural context.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Zhang Xudong: Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies at New York University (NYU), and Director of the International Center for Critical Theory. He has also served as a visiting professor of the "Zijiang Lecture" at East China Normal University; a "Changjiang Scholar" lecture professor, a humanities chair professor (visiting), and the Director of the International Center for Critical Theory at Peking University. His Chinese works include "Chinese Modernism in the Reform Era - The 1980s as Spiritual History", "Globalization and Cultural Politics - China in the 1990s and the End of the 20th Century", "Writing in Our Time", "Dialogue with the Age of Enlightenment", and "New York Letters". He has translated "Lyric Poets in the Age of Advanced Capitalism" and "Enlightenment". He has edited "The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism" and "Tradition and Formal Creativity".
Table of contents · · · · · ·
——Benjamin and the Baudelaire Study and Revolution in His Works——Benjamin’s Character and Fate as a “Collector”——Benjamin and his Kafka Salvation is My Personal Expression——Proust and the Philosophy of History, Volume 2 The Historicity of Theory Returning to the Poetics of Dialectics in the 1980s——Interpreting Jameson’s Orientalism and the Politics of Representation——Writing the Self in the Age of Others, Symbolic Space and History——Bourdieu’s Social Philosophy from the Perspective of Third World Cultural Practice Postmodernism and Contemporary China Theory and Historicity——An Interview with Jameson Awakening from the “Bourgeois Century”——Introduction to the Chinese Edition of Benjamin’s Collected Works “Illuminati” Appendix: Twenty Years of Melancholy and Ideals: Remarks on the Reprint of “The Lyric Poet in the Age of Advanced Capitalism” Volume 3 Appropriating Literary Experience: Hermeneutical Text-Reader Theory From “Misty Poetry” to “New Novel”
——The stage theory of literature in the new era and the genealogy of ideological forgetting——Lu Xun reinterprets the fairy tale of self-consciousness——Ge Fei and several motifs of experimental novels Shanghai nostalgia——Wang Anyi and the allegorical generation of modernity Postscript: The limits and possibilities of "returning to the 1980s"
