As part of the Slovenian Philosophy Society Symposium, dedicated to the reflection and debate on the topic of the role that philosophy can still play in the transformations in the contemporary world, the paper on the relation between the Chinese Philosophy and the Geopolitic ambition of the Chinese state aspired to provide an insight to the symposium topic from the viewpoint of contemporary China. The central topic was the contemporary revival of the Chinese traditional thought, especially Confucianism, in the context of Chinese political and economic aspirations. Special emphasis was placed on two key notions of this traditionalist revival: the notion of harmony (he xie) and the notion of the world (tian xia), that one on the inside for the Chinese society and the other on the outside for the international relations both respond to the challenges PRC is facing today. Using these two examples the paper examined one possible model of the »use« of philosophy in the contemporary world and analyzed discursive elements that place traditionalist paradigms within the modern and contemporary politics of identity, self-recognition of the nation and the nation's relation to another modern notion of the Chinese Civilization.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537017028Jana Rošker was the chief editor of the special issue of the journal Asian Studies which was dedicated to the topic of the Confucian revival and the intellectual foundations of Chinese modernity (http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/as/issue/view/218 ). It contained selected contributions from the international symposium Contemporary Confucianism and Chinese Modernization, which took place in Reykjavik on September 7th and 8th and was organized by Geir Sigurðsson in cooperation with the Northern Lights Confucius Institute and the Chinese Studies Department of the University of Iceland. As one of the most influential and important streams of thought in contemporary East Asian theory, while also representing a crucial part of the new, dominant ideologies in the P.R. China, the so - called Confucian revival is considered by many scholars in Chinese studies to be of utmost importance in terms of research and investigation. However, while many books and articles on this topic are available in Chinese, Western academic studies remain few and far between. In taking this situation as their point of departure, the authors of the present collection analyze the central values of Confucianism, and interpret them within the very different Chinese and Taiwanese socio-political contexts in order to evaluate their impact on the dominant, contemporary ideologies. The authors also examine the main elements that enable the amalgamation of traditional Chinese values into the framework of capitalistic ideologies and axiological contexts.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 273649152The second period of formation of Japanese state is ranging from 1877 to 1935 and it is characterized with a new intensity in discussion about the Japanese origins, which has emerged as a consequence of new areas of investigation in archaeology and anthropology. This is a period of transition between the textual approach to the past and the archaeological proper one, and it is of vital importance for the study of Japanese origins. The sense of national belongingness in Meiji period (1868–1912), which started to occur in the previous period, was no longer limited to the elite. Politicians have adopted it in order to function as the foundation stone for the modern national state and they have formed the idea of family state (kazoku kokka), which contained also a traditional familism buttressed by Confucian ethics. The familism, which included the extended family system was expanded to cover the whole nation in such a way that the imperial family was considered to be the main family for all Japanese families. This means that the Japanese traditions of ancestor worship and subordination of branch families to the main family were integrated to achieve loyalty on a national scale.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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