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or to be seen and understood as fully comprehensive in their approach to the world and to the questions of human existence, individually and collectively considered in history. This section nevertheless presents two different daring studies. Wu Xiaoming, from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, makes a detailed comparison between the ways Lu Xun and Lévinas, from very different cultural backgrounds, see the inter-personal encounter: are we doomed to be “persecuted” by others? On some broader level of thought, Thierry Meynard, from the Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, takes up the problem of the academic disciplines. As is well-known, “Western Learning” long ago began to be known in China, and later on in Japan. But only recently, it seems, some “Eastern” reconfiguration of imported—so to say—academic disciplines began to appear in discussions between Chinese scholars.
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