The Assassins of Confucius
What has Confucius got to do with a transatlantic quarrel and a post-truth epoch? In this fearless pamphlet, as erudite as it is trenchant, Levi regards, with a clinical and wry eye, current academia as an ideological battle site and an image of our time.
| Weight | 0.110000 |
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| ISBN13/Barcode | 9781999883362 |
| ISBN10 | 1999883365 |
| Author | Jean Levi; translated by Mingyuan Hu |
| Binding | Paperback |
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| Date Published | 27th March 2023 |
| Pages | 96 |
| Publisher | Hermits United |
What has Confucius got to do with a transatlantic quarrel and a post-truth epoch? As the Chinese past becomes an academic expression of a clash between superpowers, and as the question of Confucius’s realness, or not, echoes a rather ludicrous Sino-American rivalry for pseudo world hegemony, Jean Levi refutes the thesis of Confucius’s non-existence and contends that, in vogue among Sinologists across the pond, this thesis employs the same arguments as those of Holocaust deniers and which, above all, joins a general tendency of de-realisation of reality.
In this fearless pamphlet, as erudite as it is trenchant, Levi regards, with a clinical and wry eye, current academia as an ideological battle site and an image of our time.