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"The iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi (1527-1602) was a central figure in the cultural world of the late Ming dynasty. His provocative and controversial writings and actions powerfully shaped late-Ming print culture, commentarial and epistolary practice, discourses on authenticity and selfhood, attitudes toward friendship and masculinity, displays of filial piety, understandings of the public and private spheres, views toward women, and perspectives on Buddhism and the afterlife. In this volume, leading sinologists demonstrate the interrelatedness of seemingly discrete aspects of Li Zhi's thought and emphasize the far-reaching impact of his ideas and actions on both his contemporaries and his successors. In doing so, they challenge the myth that there was no tradition of dissidence in premodern China"--

Li, Zhi, --- Li, Chih, --- Li, Tschi, --- Ri, Shi, --- 李贽, --- 李贄, --- Li, Zhuowu, --- Li, Cho-wu, --- Li, Tscho-wu, --- Ri, Takugo, --- 李卓吾, --- Li, Wenling, --- Li, Wen-ling, --- Ri, Onryo, --- 李温陵, --- Ri, Kōshin, --- 李宏甫, --- Li, Hongfu, --- 温陵居, --- Wenlingjushi, --- S12/0650 --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Zajia, eclectici (incl. Wang Chong, Lunheng, Li Zhi) --- Asian history

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Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527-1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler-Spitz explores these works as culturally distinct responses to similar social and economic tensions affecting early modern cultures on both ends of Eurasia. The paradoxes, ironies, and self-contradictions that pervade these works are symptomatic of the hypocrisy, social posturing, and counterfeiting that afflicted both Chinese and European societies at the turn of the seventeenth century.

Chinese literature --- History and criticism. --- Li, Zhi, --- Li, Chih, --- Li, Tschi, --- Ri, Shi, --- 李贽, --- 李贄, --- Li, Zhuowu, --- Li, Cho-wu, --- Li, Tscho-wu, --- Ri, Takugo, --- 李卓吾, --- Li, Wenling, --- Li, Wen-ling, --- Ri, Onryo, --- 李温陵, --- Ri, Kōshin, --- 李宏甫, --- Li, Hongfu, --- 温陵居, --- Wenlingjushi, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- S16/0700 --- History and criticism --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Comparative literature --- HISTORY / Asia / China --- Sociology --- Political science --- Culture --- Critical theory. --- Civilization, Modern --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Political philosophy --- Critical social theory --- Critical theory (Philosophy) --- Critical theory (Sociology) --- Negative philosophy --- Criticism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Frankfurt school of sociology --- Socialism --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Philosophy. --- General. --- Regional Studies. --- Anthropology