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This collection of articles discusses the basic epistemological issues facing the global theoretical humanities in terms of cross-cultural points of view. The topics discussed especially concern theoretical semiotics, institutional restrictions of current humanities scholarship, and comparative historical semiotics, as well as the more applicable and empirical-rational-directed humanist ethics. The text is characterized by its hermeneutic dialogue between contemporary western theories and traditional Chinese intellectual history, that will be instructive and informative for scholars and theoretical readers of all branches in both the western and non-western humanities. It emphasizes the great significance of the theoretical humanities in our times and their urgent task should lie in collectively reconstructing a more rationalized humanist-scientific foundation for a new type of human sciences through critically reorganizing all intellectual sources of mankind.

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Youzheng Li is one of the former Vice-Presidents of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, a former Senior Fellow of the Chinese Institute of Philosophy (CASS), and a former short-term French directeur d' etudes (EHESS). He is the first Chinese scholar to introduce Husserlian phenomenology and current hermeneutics and semiotics (concerning theoretical, anthropological, literary, cinematic and historical studies) into Chinese academia in the post-Maoist period. Over the past four decades, he has published 19 books (including A Hermeneutic Study of Confucius Analects ( ) and New Renxue : A Classical Chinese Humanist Ethics) and 25 translated theoretical works (including eight volumes of Husserl's masterpieces).

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