| Volume 5, Number 4, October 2008 |
Looking West While Sailing East
by Peter Starr 彼得·斯塔尔 |
The EU: Neither God Nor Caesar
by Bérengère Massignon 白兰日赫·玛西农 |
IF ONE is struggling to explain the inner-European controversy about Turkey to someone looking from very far away, for example as far away as China, one might say that the problem has always been the impossibility of establishing where Europe’s eastern borders are. The forests in the north, the plains, the rivers, and seas in the south, reach out endlessly into Asia, with nothing so neat as a Great Wall to divide us.
From the viewpoint...
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HOW does the European Union (EU) handle the relationships between confessional faiths and the unified body that it is striving to bring about? Being inherently pluralistic, it is incumbent upon the EU to develop a new form of secularisation.
At a time when the idea of a religious revival, even “the revenge of God” (Gilles Kepel), is being spoken of across the world, Europe, marked as it is by a high degree of secularisation, would like to be seen as...
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The (Re-)Shaping of Academic Disciplines
in China
by Thierry Meynard 梅谦立
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A World Split Apart
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn 亚历山大·
索尔仁尼琴 |
AS Michel Foucault has stressed in his writings, human knowledge is very much informed by its classification into different disciplines and branches. Before the impact of Western knowledge at the beginning of the twentieth century, Chinese intellectual life had basically followed its own track for centuries. However, with the elimination of the examination system in 1905, everything changed. New academic institutions, functioning mostly according to the Western episteme, were established. After 1949, reforms were implemented following the model of the Soviet Union. Since 1978...
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I AM sincerely happy to be here with you on this occasion and to become personally acquainted with this old and most prestigious University. My congratulations and very best wishes to all of today’s graduates.
Harvard’s motto is “Veritas.” Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit. And even while it eludes us, the illusion still lingers of knowing it and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth is seldom pleasant...
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A Voice to
Be Remembered
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