Contents
Irving Babbitt’s Influence
in China: Four Perspectives, 5
The Editors
The Birth of a Chinese Cultural Movement:
Letters Between Babbitt and Wu Mi, 6
Wu Xuezhao
Chinese Reactions to Babbitt:
Admiration, Encumbrance, Vilification, 26
Zhu Shoutong
Babbitt’s Impact in China:
The Case of Liang Shiqiu, 46
Bai Liping
‘Which West Are You Talking About?’
Critical Review: A Unique Model
of Conservatism in Modern China, 69
Ong Chang Woei
Kafka’s Afflicted Vision:
A Literary-Theological Critique, 83
George A. Panichas
Bedeviled by Boredom: A Voegelinian
Reading of Dostoevsky’s Possessed, 108
Richard G. Avramenko
The Matrix, Liberal Education,
and Other Splinters in the Mind, 139
Christine Cornell and Patrick Malcolmson
On the Sceptical ‘Foundation’ of Ethics, 159
Sami Pihlström
Cain, Abel, Obligation, and Right, 188
Gary Inbinder
History, The Past, and the Inner Life, 202
Anthony Harrigan