Hou Academic Thought

LI Ze-hou is an important figure of Chinese contemporary academic andideological history. He has been working hard in the fields of philosophy, aestheticsand ideological history. Particularly in 1980s,almost his every treatise gave rise tocontroversy in the academic circles and exercised a great influence on growingintellectuals at that time. Based on deeply understanding LI Ze-hou's subjectivepractical philosophy, this paper grasps a series of most representative andcontroversial key arguments among his train of thinking, further integrates the erabackground to carry out preliminary, exploratory analysis, explanation and comment.Firstly, it mainly expounds the fundamental principles of LI Ze-hou's subjectivepractical philosophy, especially the conceptions such as "subjectivity", "practice","natural personification" and "accumulation". Secondly, it mainly dissects LIZe-hou's several theses of cultural philosophy, particularly those that caused extensiveattentions in the eighties' cultural trend, such as "Western subject and Chineseapplication", "creation of transformation", "the fourth stage of development ofConfucianism" which were posed to meet the era requirement of the modernization oftradition. Thirdly, it is based on the contends in the eighties' academic trend to lookhorizontally and closely at the values and influences of LI Ze-hou' ideas, so itillustrates three figures respectively named LIU Zai-fu, LIU Xiao-bo and LIUXiao-feng who are closely related to LI Ze-hou' ideas and commonly participate inthe ideas' contends. Lastly, through research the paper reveals LI Ze-hou' position inChinese contemporary idea circles, discloses the Chinese contemporary ideas' basicthemes of conversation, and make some conclusions such as LI Ze-hou' train ofthought of Chinese modernization, the enlightening guidance of his academic turns,and his ideas' nature of time.