| Résumé: | The aim of this article is to analyze the appropriation and inversion of motifs relating to the modern European conception of philosophy in Féng Yŏulán's A Short Story of Chinese Philosophy, in the context of the emergence of an intellectual movement in China that incorporated the practices, the language and ends of European philosophy and whose central concern was the problem of the legitimacy of Chinese philosophy. The analysis of the argumentative method of Féng Yŏulán in this work highlights the strategic and provisional nature of the dichotomies, such as that between the philosophical and the religious or between the mystical and the rational, which have been the margin and the silhouette of the formation of an allegedly essential idea of philosophy in modernity. This conception of philosophy had a drastic impact on 20th century Chinese thought and continues to weigh heavily on the globally accepted conception of philosophy in the world today.
|
|---|
