A new understanding of the human self : Li Zehou’s “subjectality”

Rošker, Jana S. (author)

Li Zehou’s concept of subjectality (zhutixing) is a central component of his philosophical system. In explaining this concept, Li has expanded the concept of the human Self in post-revolutionary modernity. This article explores the foundations of this concept, its significance in contemporary Chinese theory, and shows that it represents a call for a new kind of humanism. Using a multidimensional comparative approach, it will illustrate how Li’s concept of subjectality has the potential to fill the currently prevailing “value vacuum” and transform postmodern alienation into a truly fulfilling “human condition” that can be actively realized and practiced in a free society of autonomous individuals.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Chinese philosophy, Li Zehou, subjectivity
• 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. 129 - 132
• Numbering: Vol. 54, Iss. 1/2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-167655
• UDC: 1(510)
• ISSN on article: 2768-3532
• DOI: 10.1080/27683524.2023.2206313
• COBISS.SI-ID: 167510275
• Publication date in RUL: 05.03.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Chinese literature and thought today
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc.
• ISSN: 2768-3532
• COBISS.SI-ID: 165444099

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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, Li Zehou, subjektnost