High Culture Fever

High Culture Fever

Acknowledgments
Introduction
One "Who Am I?"  Questions of Voluntarism in the Paradigm of Socialist Alienation
•Alienation
•Internalized Oppression
•Counterproposals
•Marxist Humanism And The Question Of Voluntarism
•"Who Am I?": The Problematic Self And Alienation
Two High Culture Fever  The Cultural Discussion in the Mid-1980s and the Politics of Methodologies
•Variations Of The Aesthetic Modern
•Culture Fever
•Modernity And Scientific Rationality: Jin Guantao, System Theory, And The Premodern Myth Of Totality
Confucian Revivalism
•Confucianism and Rationality
•Neo-Confucianism and Western Marxism
At The Margin: The Enlightenment School And The Hermeneutic Experiment
•The Qimeng School
•The Hermeneutic Experiment: An Epistemological Turn toward Self-Positioning?
Li Zehou And The Marxist Reconstruction Of Confucianism
•Xiti Zhongyong: Western Learning as Substance, Chinese Learning as Means
•Tianren Heyi: Retrograde Cultural Unconscious or an Antidote for Modernity in Excess?
•"Practice" and Practical Rationality
Three Heshang and the Paradoxes of the Chinese Enlightenment
•The Historical Past: Unawakened Dream or a Nightmare?
•The Fallacy Of Ultrastability?
•The Fetishism Of Cultural Symbols
•The Quest Of The Intellectual Elite
Four  Mapping Aesthetic Modernity
•The Hermeneutics Of Xiandai Yishi
•The Aesthetic Modern As Ideology
•The Formal Revolution
•Language Fever: The Search For Aesthetic Rationality
•"Literature Has Lost Its Sensational Impact On Society": The Separation Of The Aesthetic From The Social
•The Controversy Over Pseudomodernism
•"Blue Sky, Green Sea" Revisited
•Root-Searching And Modern Consciousness
•Mo Yan And Wang Meng: Modernist Rhetoric And Pseudomodernist Ideology
Five Romancing the Subject  Utopian Moments in the Chinese Aesthetics of the 1980s
•The Historical Entry Of The Triple Players: Liu Zaifu, The Root-Searching School, And The Experimentalists
•Liu Zaifu: The Master Grammarian Of The Subject
•Serenading The Cultural Subject: Theories And Practice
•Paradigm I: China Versus The West Or Tradition Versus Modernity?
•Paradigm 2: Inscribing The Rooted Cultural And Aesthetic Subject
•Experimental Fiction: The Subject Under Erasure?
Six The Pseudoproposition of "Chinese Postmodernism"  Ge Fei and the Experimentalist Showcase
•The Great Leap Forward And The Formation Of The Pseudobinary
•Gei Fei, The Experimental Showcase, And The Mirage Of Postmodernism
•Whistling
•Yu Hua, Ge Fei, Subjectivity, And Body Mutilation
Seven Wang Shuo  "Pop Goes the Culture?"
•Post-New-Era: Epochal Wares
•Where Have The Good Old Days Gone?
•The Cult Of "Hooliganism"
•The Hooligan Chronicle
•Philosophy À La Hooligan
Notes
•Introduction
•One"Who Am I?" Questions of Voluntarism in the Paradigm of Socialist Alienation
•TwoHigh Culture Fever The Cultural Discussion in the Mid-1980s and the Politics of Methodologies
•ThreeHeshang and the Paradoxes of the Chinese Enlightenment
•Four Mapping Aesthetic Modernity
•FiveRomancing the Subject Utopian Moments in the Chinese Aesthetics of the 1980s
•SixThe Pseudoproposition of "Chinese Postmodernism" Ge Fei and the Experimentalist Showcase
•SevenWang Shuo "Pop Goes the Culture?"
Bibliography
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