Special Issue: Female Literary Characters and Female Social Identities

ARCHANA MALIK/ Philosophy of Love and Devotion with Reference to Indian Female Saint Muktabai and Mirabai 1

ZIYAN YANG/ “Yan” and “Li”: Two Types of Female Beauty in the Period of Transition from Traditional to Modern Chinese Society 23   

HUIYI BAO/ Claustrophilia, Claustrophobia，and Locale Fatale: The Spatial Poetics of The Monk 37

CHUN LIU/ Weaving Her Muthos: Helen in Book 4 of the Odyssey 49

KAJAL CHAUDHARY & SHIVANI VASHIST/ Exploring “New Woman” in the Translated works of Ashapurna Devi and Suchitra Bhattacharya 61

ASHIM SHIL & CHANDRIKA BASHU MAJUMBER/ Genealogy of Women’s Property Rights and Political Thought: A Feminist Critique of Theoreticians from the Ancient World through Modern Times 69

YIXUAN LIU, RAY WANG & JOHN Z. DING/ Reexaminations of Translators’ Visibility and Subjectivity from the Perspectives of Feminist Translation theory 79       
 

Book Review

YEYAN GAO/ Li Jikai et al., Modern Silk Road Literature in Cultural Perspective 121
 

Special Issue: East-West Literature in the Perspective of Cultural Crossvergence

Jikai Li/ Guest Editor’s Introduction  1

Articles

JIKAI LI/ Cultural Crossvergence and Modern Chinese Literature  3

YANQIU ZHAO/ Chinese Realism: From Importation and integration to independent Development  15              
 

QUANGEN WANG/ Juvenile Literature in the light of Cultural Exchange and Mutual Learning between China and the West  29

WEI HAN & ZHIFENG REN/ Postcolonial, Intellectual and Identity: Three Aspects of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novel  35
 

PIETRO GIORDAN/ (Narrating) Time(s) East and West: An Interdisciplinary Comparative Approach to Wang Xiaobo’s Time Trilogy   47

XIANRONG QIAO/ Crossing the Verge of World Literature: Misinterpreting of Early Chinese Baojuan (or Precious Scroll)  61

XU SUN/ Cultural Crossvergence: Theory, Practice, and Significance in Contemporary China  69

SHUTING KOU/ Wenxin Diaolong in the Historical Works of Chinese Literature in Modern Japan  87

Review Article

JIE MA/ The Theoretical Construct and Academic Practice of “Cultural Running-in”: A Research Overview   99

Book Review

JIKAI LI/ Liu Yong & Li Chunyu:  Intellectual Writer and Intellectual Scholar: Wang Furen and His Study of Lu Xun 103    
 

Articles

JOSEF SEIFERT/ “Linguistic Analysis” and Clarification of Terms as Tools for Understanding “Things Themselves” 1

YANG YE/ “Making It Strange”: The Travel Writings of Wang Siren 9

HUIMIN JIN/ Postmodernism in the 21st Century Pros and Cons  19

AKIYOSHI SUZUKI/ Transcending the Gap between American and Japanese Thoughts: A Cross-cultural Reading of Haruki Murakami’s and Truman Capote’s Literary Texts  31

ALOK KUMAR/ Existentialist Vedanta: Reading Vivekananda with Camus  45

A. BALAKRISHNAN/ Caste Slavery: Restructuring and Implications in Kerala Society 57

R. K. ROSHNI RAJ LAKSHMI/ Stoicism in Yoga Text  69   

               
SUBHAM MUKHERJEE & ARUNIMA GHOSH/ Anti-colonial Intellectualism and the Privilege of Discourse: Identifying Colonial Proliferations and Ideological Complicity in George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant (1936)  81

PROSENJIT RAY/ Subaltern Renaissance: Thakur Panchanan Barma & Rajbanshi Society 97
 

Articles

JOSEF SEIFERT/ The Thankful One about the 35th Name of Allah “Al-Shakur” - A Contribution to Understand One’s Own Religion Better and to an Interreligious Dialogue of Approchement through a Phenomenology of Thanksgiving   1

XUNWU CHEN/ Democracy and the Public Use of Reason: Kant, Rawls, and Habermas   9

Articles: Buddhist Studies

RADHA KRISHNA BAROR/ Buddha and Marx: A Philosophical Comparison   25

SAMRIDHYA MOITRA/ Sauntering towards Awakening in Thoreau’s Walden “Economy”: Through the Lens of the Buddha and the Dhammapada   45

Review Articles

TASNIMA YASMIN/ Neurosis of Arab and Indian Diasporic Characters In Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Prairies Of Fever and Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People   61

DESALE ABRAHA/ The Refugee Crisis and Japan’s Double Standards of Protection    75

YIWEN LIU/ Chinese Scholars on “Marx and Justice”    91

KANT KUMAR/ Whither Chinese Socialist Law: A Comparative Note on “Rule of Law” and China Defined Notion of “Ruling the Country in Accordance with Law”      103

Reality, Real Being, and Phenomenological Noumenology

Josef Maria Seifert

Edited by X. Chen and J. Z. Ding
With an introduction by Xunwu Chen

Introduction  1

Chapter One： THE PRIMORDIAl PHENOMENON OF REALITY

1. What is Reality and Real Existence?  13
2. Husserl's Twofold Error in the Characterization of “Reality”  14
3. Scheler's Incorrect Assertion about Reality and its Primary Criterion and Form of Cognition  18
4. The Irreducible and Indefinable Primordial Phenomenon of Reality Enables its Grasp through its Opposites and Essential Features  19
5. The “Final Being” of the Real Beings  22

Chapter Two： PHENOMENOLOGY AS NOUMENOLOGY

1. Indubitable Knowledge of Real Being in the Cogito  41
2. Characteristics of Essentially Necessary States of Affairs 62
3. Critical Reflections on the Immediate Datum of the Real Being of the Conscious Self and His Acts A Realist Phenomenological Response to David Hume’s Denial of Personal Identity  83
4. Kant’s Objections against the Cogito and Replies   90
5. Knowledge of Other Persons “I” – “Thou” – “He”/ “She”  97

Chapter Three： FROM CONTINGENT BEINGS TO THE MOST REAL ENS NECESSARIUM

1. From Contingent Beings to the Necessary Being  100
2. From Being in Time that Moves towards Nothingness to Eternal and Most Real Being  109

About the Author  113
 

Articles: Philosophical Studies

ARMAN RAHMIM/ On Ontological Openness: Who is Open?  Resonating Thoughts from Continental Philosophers and Muslim Mystics    1

ABANI SONOWAL/ Rāmānuja’s Commentary on Metaphysics of the Bhagavadgītā: A Critical Study (Part-I)   17

SUYASHA SINGH ISSER/ Redefining Common Good for Women in Rousseau’s Philosophy    31

Articles: Literary Studies

EUGENIA PRASOL/ Trauma Through Dystopian Distortions of Memory: Ogawa Yoko’s The Memory Police    47                    

SANGHAMITRA SINHA and MALAVIKA SINHA/ A Study on Purvarchika of Samaveda: Connotation of Sama and Soma    61

ARATRIKA BOSE/ From Top-Bottom to Kothi-Panthi: Situating the Active Passive Dichotomy in Modern Indian Cultural Milieu through a Select Study of R Raj Rao’s Gay Protagonists    81

YEYAN GAO/ Exploring Narrative Innovations and Intellectual Quests: A Study of Zijiang Ding’s The Absurd Generation    93

Book Review

Xu Sun/ Chen Xiaoming:  Chen Xiaoming’s Anthology（eight volumes）, Guangdong Peoples Publishing House, China, 2023    113

ISSN: 2161-7236 (Print), 2168-2259 (Online) / NUMBER 3, VOLUME 14, SEPTEMBER 2024

Articles: Literary & Art Studies

AITORU TERENGUTO/ Concerning Poetic Creativity Between Imagination and Allegory: Attempt at an Allegorical Interpretation of Coleridge's “Kubla Khan”    1

S. ALEXANDER & G. VIGNESHWAR/ A Study on Cross-Generation Assimilation in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s To Whom She Will     17

YINGSHAN LIU/ A Study of the Female Image of Midori in Norwegian Wood in China     25

KAPOU MALAKAR/ Development of Neorealism in Assamese Films: An Auteur Perspective of Select Films     37

Articles: Philosophical Studies

YAN ZHOU/ Theoretical Approach in True Alphabets vs. Expedient Approach in Chinese Characters and Some Effects: Realistic vs. Idealistic Accounts     53

WENNAN WU/ English Translations of Li Zhi’s Works     67

RAMAN & PRIYANKA MAHAJAN/ Utopian Future with Artificial Intelligence and Superintelligence: A Comparative Analysis of Max Tegmark’s Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and James Lovelock’s Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence     87