In Professor Zhang Yibing's Lenin Revisited we find loyalty to
Marxism, as well as a firm grasp of all the traditions,
psychoanalytical theories, and textual analytical theories of
Western Marxism; such a combination is extremely rare in this day.
Zhang Yibing's interpretation of Philosophical Notebooks is
developed from a textual fact that has long been ignored despite
its truth. This is that Philosophical Notebooks are not a "book,"
but rather a random collection of notes and outlines collected
after the death of the author. Therefore, Lenin's Philosophical
Notebooks should be interpreted as a series of documents that
reflect the theoretical and political conflicts of the time (among
these documents is included a good deal of backtracking and aimless
wandering). These documents are a series of windows opening on the
particular social and political circumstances of Lenin's day (such
as the collapse of the European Social Democratic Party in 1914).
This line of interpretation reveals to us, in a truly miraculous
fashion that has never before been duplicated, a Lenin who survives
the existential test, who is interpreted with the newest
philosophical experiments. This man, a contemporary of Adorno,
Foucault, and Lacan, extends to us the invitation to continue his
critical line of thought. For us today, the words "Lenin revisited"
actually mean to step into the future in the company of this great
historical thinker. Professor Zhang Yibing's newest work is not
merely important in China: it is vital for everyone who wishes to
restore the work of communism with the depth of philosophy. Slavoj
Zizek Replicating the phenomenal research found in Marx Revisited,
Professor Zhang Yibing has forwarded the study of Marxist
philosophy using meticulous textual interpretation. This method,
familiar to Western scholars, means that Zhang Yibing begins from
the context of the modern political - scholarly - debate in
researching the historical developmental process of Marxist
philosophy. Furthermore, unlike many commentators of Marxist theory
in both the East and the West, he has not assumed a dogmatic
necessity for orthodoxy or science at the beginning of his theory.
In his new work Lenin Revisited, Zhang Yibing begins with a broad,
global scholarly scope in revealing that Lenin's Philosophical
Notebooks are really a scholarly "mixture" that has been subjected
to editing and refining. He goes on to conduct careful analysis of
each constitutive element by unifying the dominant textual form and
the editing expectations. This is doubtless a direct contribution
to the furthering of interpretive theory. Zhang Yibing refers to
this as "field work"; he has also learned much from this process.
Building on the work of Roland Barthes, Zhang Yibing again
demonstrates that textual interpretation is not a simple "return"
to the "author himself" in a bookish sense; rather, it is a
creative, productive thought experience shared by the researcher
and the reader. Terrell Carver, Department of Politics University
of Bristol Professor Zhang Yibing's important interpretation of
Lenin's thought from a new perspective is based on the following
theoretical premises. In 1914, with the outbreak of the First World
War, Lenin systematically studied Hegel's Science of Logic; Marxist
research conducted in the former Soviet Union ignored the highly
significant philosophical shift experienced by Lenin during this
time. Zhang Yibing extracts his research from the traditional
dogmatic interpretive scope used to examine Lenin, Marx, and the
dialectic method. Proceeding from the modern French perspective of
literary criticism, Professor Zhang conducts an extraordinary
interpretation of Lenin's philosophical notebooks on Hegel. Kevin
B. Anderson, Purdue University, author of Lenin, Hegel, and Western
Marxism
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