The transformation of the empirical into the transcendental : Li Zehous development of Kants theory

Rošker, Jana S. (author)

Li Zehou ranks amongst the most influential contemporary Chinese philosophers and theorists. After the Tian An Men incident, he was forced to immigrate to the USA, where sadly he passed away last November. His philosophy has often – and mostly against his own will - been compared to the work of numerous Western theoreticians. Remaining mainly loyal to the conceptual framework of early Marxist historical materialism, he was simultaneously influenced by the works of Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, the Frankfurt School, Lukács, Piaget, Lacan, Sartre, Althusser, Habermas and others. In spite of this colourful palette of different influences, his work has most often been seen as being rooted in certain basic paradigms derived from (or comparable to) the ones defining the thought of Marx on the one hand, and Kant on the other. Most of these comparisons were grounded in the assumption according to which the majority of Li’s theories were based upon insights derived from the philosophies of these two great European thinkers. On this basis, he developed several innovative approaches and new methods of anthropological philosophy; in this context, the present article focuses on his theory of the transformation of the empirical into the transcendental.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Chinese philosophy, Kant, transcultural philosophy, empirical and transcendental
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2023
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 1-19
• Numbering: Vol. 32, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-167654
• UDC: 1(510)
• ISSN on article: 2585-8793
• DOI: 10.31577/aassav.2023.32.1.01
• COBISS.SI-ID: 154619395
• Publication date in RUL: 05.03.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Asian and African Studies
• Shortened title: Asian Afr. Stud.
• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava
• ISSN: 2585-8793
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40930051

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: kitajska filozofija, Kant, empirizem in transcendentalizem, transkulturna filozofija