TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alex Ching-Shing Chan
PY  - 2011
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783035103083
TI  - Intellectual Narratives
T2  - Theory, History and Self-Characterization of Social Margins in Public Writings
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0351-0308-3
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052407
N2  - This book aims to study the intellectual lives of three Hong Kong intellectuals by narrating their lives as self-reflections on theories related to social margins. Drawing on insights from Paul Ricoeur, Hannah Arendt and Zygmunt Bauman, the author analyses their narratives through in-depth interviews. Their stories point to an interpretative understanding of the works they had cursorily read when creating their historical narrations of Hong Kong from the 1970s to 2003. These stories of individual intellectuals, together with their interpretations of what they have individually read about various western theories, challenge theoretical prescriptions of historical contingent events in their narration. Such narration unfolds self-characterizations of intellectuals the author interviewed, and represents a neglected social marginal which demands that immediate attention in the public through their intellectual writings.
KW  - Social Politics, Theoretical Methodology of Cultural Studies, Theory, Philosophy, Methodology, Cultural Sociology, Sociological Theory
LA  - English
ER  -