This international collection was edited by Jana Rošker (the leader of the program group) and Nataša Visočnik (a member of the program group. They both have also published their own chapters in the book. Besides, Jana Rošker wrote the introduction. Besides Jana Rošker and Nataša Visočnik, four other members of the program group have also contributed to the collection with their own essays (Luka Culiberg, Barbara Pihler Ciglič, Téa Sernelj and Helena Motoh). From different interdisciplinary angels, the book illuminates the so-called Confucian revival which came to prominence at the end of the twentieth-century, and which is manifested in the philosophical stream of Modern Confucianism. This stream of thought belongs to the most significant elements within new Asian modernisation ideologies. By providing new insights into the culturally conditioned structure of Asian societies, this book contributes to the improvement of political, economic and cultural relations between “Western” and East Asian countries. Most classical Western modernisation theories have assumed that Confucianism would have to be abandoned if East Asia wanted to develop a dynamic, modern society, claiming that traditional Chinese culture was impervious or even inimical to modernisation. Max Weber’s well-known thesis that the Protestant ethic was an essential factor in the rise and spread of modernisation represents a sharp contrast to the notion which has gradually emerged over the last two decades in East Asia, and which argues that societies based upon Confucian ethics may, in many ways, be superior to the West in achieving industrialization, affluence and modernisation.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 59146594In September 2015 Téa Sernelj has delivered an invited plenary key note speech at the Conference on the contemporary philosopher Li Zehou and Confucian philosophy, which took place in Honolulu at the famous East West Center at the University of Hawaii. Her speech will be published in the book on Li Zehou and Confucian philosophy in 2016, (edited by Roger T. Ames, University of Hawaii Press). It dealt with Li Zehou's theory of sedimentation as the origin of aesthetic appreciation and the development of art. Li Zehou was a representative of the debate about aesthetics in China in the 1950s. Essentially, the debate strove to establish the Marxist ideology of aesthetics but simultaneously managed to set in place the theoretical foundations for an aesthetics that refused the conceptualization and sloganization of art. The core of Li Zehou's aesthetic theory consist of three crucial concepts: the humanization of nature, sedimentation and cultural–psychological formation. For Li, art and aesthetic experience have the potential to transform human beings to attain perfection in the process of cultivation. Human beings became able to appreciate art and aesthetic feelings or attitudes through mental forms or sedimentation (jidian) which is the process of the accumulation and condensation of the social, the rational, and the historical to become something individualistic, sensuous, and intuitive; this is accomplished through the humanization of nature. This paper offers a critical examination of two concepts that were created in Europe and in China respectively and which bear several similarities: on the one side, it deals with Li Zehou's theory of sedimentation as the origin of aesthetic appreciation and the development of art. On the other, it investigates Carl Gustav Jung’s concept of archetypes, comparing it with the notion of sedimentation.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 59628642In 2015, Jana Rošker and Nataša Visočnik have in the context of the project research in the publishing house Faculty of Arts Scientific Press established a new book series entitled Studia Humanitatis Asiatica. In this series, we will publish the works of the most important East Asian intellectuals that are still unknown in Slovenia. Therefore, the series has a national-wide significance. Because the series was established only last year, only one volume has been published so far. However, in 2016 we will published two more volumes, which are currently in the editing process. The editor Nataša Visočnik has written the foreword to the first monograph that was published in the scope of this series, entitled Wang Hui and the question of Modernity and Democracy in China (published in Slovene language). Introduction of the first book from the collection Studia Humanitatis Asiatica presents the contents referring to the one of the most important intellectuals of modern China, whose representative works have been translated into English and other foreign languages. Wang Hui, born 1959, is the author of numerous books, articles and press releases, which in an unconventional way interpret academic research and socio-political issues of modern times. The book is a collection of translations of two long, previously published essays by Wang Hui and one of the original scientific article Jane S. Rošker. All contributions relate to the social changes that have happened and are still happening in China over the past few decades, with the focus primarily on the turbulent events in the political world. Through various analyzes of social phenomena and political changes contributions show a crossroads and the paths of the modernization in China and its impact on society as a whole, and particularly in the political world, where exchange of various political systems and ideology has happened in the last few decades.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
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