50 Years after Martin Jay's "The Dialectical Imagination"
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Problem of Language Barriers in East Asia
In China and Japan, men's scholars in this field are mild, dare-fick style of continental philosophy. That's partly why Heidegger is popular after the 1990s in China. We don't want to fetishize words, there are no sacred words that need to be somehow worshiped. Words need to be unpacked, the history is understood, and then we have to use them in ways that are also appropriate to the questions that we ask of them.
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