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The Study of Western Postmodern Philosophy of History in China in the Four Decades of Reform and Opening Up

  • DONG Lihe , 1 ,
  • JIN Qianwen 2
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  • 1. School of History, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • 2. School of History, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Published date: 15 Jun 2018

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2018 Higher Education Press and Brill

Abstract

In the 1960s and 1970s—as structuralism, post-structuralism, and literary criticism seeped into history—the “linguistic turn” or “narrative turn,” leading to what is known as postmodern philosophy of history, took place in Western philosophy of history. In the past forty years of reform and opening up to the outside world, and especially in the most recent two or three decades, Chinese research on Western postmodern philosophy of history has proceeded from overall review to in-depth research, and then on to reflection, criticism, and even transcendence. Neither the rethinking of historical objectivity and rationality nor the reconstruction of convictions about historical reason can work without the profound insights or theoretical tensions of postmodern philosophy of history.

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DONG Lihe , JIN Qianwen . The Study of Western Postmodern Philosophy of History in China in the Four Decades of Reform and Opening Up[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2018 , 13(2) : 254 -264 . DOI: 10.3868/s030-007-018-0020-9

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