Notable Chinese philosopher Li Zehou passed away at 7: 00 am on November 3rd, Colorado Time, at the age of 91, according to one of his students.
Mr. Li Zehou died at 7: 00 on Wednesday morning in a small town called Boulder, Colorado, USA, said Zhao Shilin, a famous sinologist.
A few years before his death, Li, one of the most influential thinkers in China in the 1980s, said that he missed his hometown in Ningxiang, Hunan as he moved to the United States in the 1990s. His works include Critique of Critical Philosophy, History of Modern Chinese Thoughts, History of Ancient Chinese Thoughts, History of Modern Chinese Thoughts, The Path of Beauty: A Study of Chinese Aesthetics, and Four Lectures on Aesthetics: Toward a Global Perspective.
In his talk with other scholars, Li once said, "China should not be afraid of Christian culture, but should tolerate it."
Li was born in June 1930 in Daolin, Ningxiang County, Changsha City, Hunan Province. He graduated from the Philosophy Department of Peking University in 1954. He became a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, an academic at the International Academy of Philosophy in Paris, and an honorary doctor of humanities from Colorado College. He became famous in the 1950s, for his aesthetic view of "unity of objectivity and sociality", which emphasized practice and "humanization". In the 1980s, Li constantly expanded his academic field and urged the ideological circle to make arduous progress on the path of enlightenment. While residing in the U.S., Li published The Contemporary Understanding of the Analects of Confucius and New Dreams of the Century.
In February 2010, the second edition of Selected Works of Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, the most authoritative worldwide literary theory anthology in the United States, included the second chapter "Form Layer and Primitive Accumulation" in Li's Four Lectures on Aesthetics. This collection of essays starts its selection from Plato's works until the present age. He was the first Chinese scholar to be included in this literary theory selection which has been dominated by western theorists.
- Translated by Oliver Zuo
据李泽厚的学生著名国学家赵士林消息，著名哲学家李泽厚在美国科罗拉多时间11月3日上午七时逝世，享年91周岁。
李泽厚先生今天早上7点在美国科罗拉多州一个名为”博尔德“（Boulder）的小镇去世。去世之前几年，他说思念老家湖南宁乡的村镇。他是上个世纪八十年代中国最有影响力的思想家之一，著作有《批判哲学的批判》《中国近代思想史论》《中国古代思想史论》《中国现代思想史论》《美的历程》《美学四讲》等。
在与其他学者对话的时候，李泽厚曾经表示：“中国不应惧怕基督教文化，而应该包容它。”
李泽厚，著名哲学家，湖南长沙市宁乡县道林人，生于1930年6月，1954年毕业于北京大学哲学系，现为中国社会科学院哲学研究所研究员、巴黎国际哲学院院士、美国科罗拉多学院荣誉人文学博士。李泽厚成名于五十年代，以重实践、尚“人化”的“客观性与社会性相统一”的美学观卓然成家。八十年代，李泽厚不断拓展其学术论域，促引思想界在启蒙的路径上艰辛前行。九十年代，李泽厚客居美国，出版了《论语今读》、《世纪新梦》等著作。
2010年2月，美国最权威的世界性古今文艺理论选集《诺顿理论与批评文选》第二版，收录了李泽厚《美学四讲》“艺术”篇中的第二章“形式层与原始积淀”。这套文集由柏拉图的论著选起，一直选到当代。李泽厚是进入这套一直由西方理论家统治的文论选的第一位中国学人。
著名哲学家李泽厚逝世享年91周岁 曾说中国不应惧怕基督教文化，而应该包容它
Notable Chinese philosopher Li Zehou passed away at 7: 00 am on November 3rd, Colorado Time, at the age of 91, according to one of his students.
Mr. Li Zehou died at 7: 00 on Wednesday morning in a small town called Boulder, Colorado, USA, said Zhao Shilin, a famous sinologist.
A few years before his death, Li, one of the most influential thinkers in China in the 1980s, said that he missed his hometown in Ningxiang, Hunan as he moved to the United States in the 1990s. His works include Critique of Critical Philosophy, History of Modern Chinese Thoughts, History of Ancient Chinese Thoughts, History of Modern Chinese Thoughts, The Path of Beauty: A Study of Chinese Aesthetics, and Four Lectures on Aesthetics: Toward a Global Perspective.
In his talk with other scholars, Li once said, "China should not be afraid of Christian culture, but should tolerate it."
Li was born in June 1930 in Daolin, Ningxiang County, Changsha City, Hunan Province. He graduated from the Philosophy Department of Peking University in 1954. He became a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, an academic at the International Academy of Philosophy in Paris, and an honorary doctor of humanities from Colorado College. He became famous in the 1950s, for his aesthetic view of "unity of objectivity and sociality", which emphasized practice and "humanization". In the 1980s, Li constantly expanded his academic field and urged the ideological circle to make arduous progress on the path of enlightenment. While residing in the U.S., Li published The Contemporary Understanding of the Analects of Confucius and New Dreams of the Century.
In February 2010, the second edition of Selected Works of Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, the most authoritative worldwide literary theory anthology in the United States, included the second chapter "Form Layer and Primitive Accumulation" in Li's Four Lectures on Aesthetics. This collection of essays starts its selection from Plato's works until the present age. He was the first Chinese scholar to be included in this literary theory selection which has been dominated by western theorists.
- Translated by Oliver Zuo
Chinese Philosopher Li Zehou Dies at 91 Who Said China Should Not Be Afraid of Christian Culture
