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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Ban Wang Abstract As a champion of May Fourth enlightenment and a critic of Chinese tradition, Lu Xun is less understood as a prescient critic of the myth of science and technological rationality. Walter Benjamin invoked the utopian reconciliation of humans and nature from premodern culture...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of the cosmos, historicizes regional ecologies in order to illuminate global dynamics, and acknowledges deterritorialization. While mourning loss, it resists sentimentalizing cultural narratives that rationalize the genocide of species as inevitable. This article focuses on three contemporary eco-writers...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 411–427.
Published: 01 September 2022
... be recognized as such. How do these latter works contemplate and represent revolution? Does fiction have to rationalize the legitimacy of a failed revolution (or one mired in predicaments)? Or does fiction attempt to accomplish something else? These questions may concern the raison d’être of Malayan Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Primarily thought of as a critic of Chinese tradition, Lu Xun is less understood as a critic of technoscientific rationality. Walter Benjamin invoked the utopian reconciliation of humans and nature from premodern culture in critiques of modernity. In the same vein, Lu Xun...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
... dream resonates with the myths of the goddess and ideas of substantial rationality imbued with aesthetic aura and ecological bonds with nature and the earth. This present work seeks to recover the utopian dream of the reconciliation of humans and nature. The Anthropocene accuses all human impact...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 March 2024
... logic. The author argues that Wu's novel succeeds in this endeavor by depicting local and global processes of settler-colonial decolonization and indicting epistemologies of “radioactive racism” that view Pacific islands as “empty” of life, logics that rationalized US Cold War nuclear tests...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 157–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
... on this-worldly pleasure and otherworldly sin have merged in exorcising the myth of Mao's revolutionary utopia. Copyright © 2020 Lingnan University 2020 Li Zehou Liu Zaifu religion transcendence aesthetics The unfolding of the 1980s New Enlightenment is often narrated as a rationalization process...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., highlighting the novel's portrayal of environmental destruction and Ye Wenjie's unique ecological awareness. Next, by analyzing the thematic conflict between idealism and rationality as portrayed in the Cultural Revolution chapters, I argue that The Three-Body Problem is an environmental dystopia as much...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 197–199.
Published: 01 December 2022
...–53, 159, 164 Harari, Yuval Noah, 161 Hardt, Michael, 88–89 Homo faber , 13, 120–21 Homo sapien , 1, 149 Horkheimer, Max, 6, 19, 35, 37 Huangchao (Chen), 13. See also Waste Tide . Hui Yuk, 4, 5 instrumental rationality, 22, 28, 36–37, 44, 63, 82, 85n3, 185–86. See...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 125–156.
Published: 01 March 2022
...]. Dalu zazhi 大陸雜誌 [Continental Magazine] 1 , nos. 3 , 4, 5 ( 1932 ). Zhang Dongsun 張東蓀 . “ Shi de shiming he lixue ” 士的使命和理學 [The Mission of Shi and the Study of Rationality]. In Zhang Dongsun juan 張東蓀卷 [The Volume of Zhang Dongsun], edited by Zuo Yuhe 左玉河 , 496 – 500 . Beijing...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
...,” technological determinism sees technology as the ground for culture. Herbert Marcuse, the ecological thinker of the Frankfurt School, designated this view “technological rationality,” which refers to “a pure instrumentality” without the capacity of formulating a substantive and meaningful end. 14...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... into five thematic clusters. The first cluster, “Reading Ecocritically,” begins with Ban Wang's ecocritical rereading of Lu Xun's 魯迅 (1881–1936) rereading of the earliest Chinese cosmological myths to counter the discourse of progress and technoscientific rationality prevalent in the early twentieth century...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 55–74.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the Waterways) and Taoist writer Zhuangzi 莊子 might have shaped Shen's thoughts about humans in the cosmos. A rich repertoire of ideas about humans' relation with nature, these references converge into a critical resource for rethinking how modern civilization rationalizes, represses, and reifies nature as well...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 115–135.
Published: 01 March 2019
... about humans in the cosmos. A rich repertoire of ideas about humans' relation with nature, these references converge into a critical resource for rethinking how modern civilization rationalizes, represses, and reifies nature as well as inner human nature. Modern environmental crises have...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the boundaries of human language and technoscientific rationality. Chan Buddhism, on the other hand, has no fear of the unknown and offers a counterbalance, promoting a critical and salutary nihilism that inspires environmental thinkers to critically examine the dualism of mind and matter in the Anthropocene...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 50–76.
Published: 01 March 2024
... as overloaded with numerous metaphysical connotations. 5 The advent of Western modernity in China at the turn of the twentieth century significantly reshaped the philosophical implications of nature with modern scientific spirit and rationality. The alternative way of modernization during Mao's rule from...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
... and the rise of rational thinking and modernity. 25 The word nihilism derives from the Latin nihil , meaning “nothing,” or that which does not exist. Nihil is embedded in the verb, annihilate , which means “to bring to nothing” or “to destroy completely.” When Nietzsche defines nihilism...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... A vast of chain of being and a biological, evolutionary process, Heaven describes ceaseless resonance and interpenetration between the natural and human worlds. This cosmology comes close to the cosmic worldviews in Western traditions under the rubric of “substantive” or objective rationality. Indebted...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 157–166.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of certain forms of linguistic exchange used for cooperative purposes—or what he calls “strong communicative action”—as providing a non-transcendental ground on which rational and ethical “lifeworlds” may be established. 19 On the other hand, Habermas acknowledges that, even if one may characterize some...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 March 2020
... China. During my visit to Russia, I witnessed all the consequences of the revolution, and I was determined to exile it from my thought as well as my mind. It is a rational endeavor that Li Zehou and I made to exile and bid farewell to the revolution. We never deny the moral justice and historical...