In the graduation thesis, Hegel and China: Reading in Losurdo's key, we try to argue, with the help of Domenico Losurdo, one of the most important contemporary Hegelian philosophers, and some other authors, that Hegel's philosophy is not only Eurocentric and thus deeply problematic, but rather that Hegel's dialectical philosophy is one of the most appropriate tools for attempting a non-Eurocentric interpretation of contemporary China and for analysing the concrete historical and political circumstances of a country in general. If we accept Hegel's historical limitations and the fact that he was, in his own words, “a child of his time”, we find that Hegel's philosophy, taken as a whole, is extremely valuable for Sinology, not least given that he is, from the point of view of the Chinese themselves, one of the greatest theoreticians and one of those who most significantly influenced the development of modern Chinese thought and political theory.
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