Thinkers Standing on the Threshold of the Century

Xin, Qi

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Standing on the threshold of the twentieth century, such thinkers as Marx, Nietzsche and Freud presented a future scenario with their ideas and issues for social and cultural transformations to come.

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1.
Communist Manifesto: Complete Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Volume 4, People’s Publishing House, p. 465.
2.
Social awareness: Karl Marx, Critique of Political Economy, People’s Publishing House, p. 11.
3.
“…with blood and dirt”: Complete Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Volume 23, People’s Publishing House, p. 829.
4.
“…to be expropriated”: Complete Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Volume 23, People’s Publishing House, pp. 831–832.
5.
“…devolve upon different individuals”: Complete Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Volume 1, People’s Publishing House, p. 37.
6.
“…common ownership of production materials”: Complete Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Volume 3, People’s Publishing House, pp. 8–10.
7.
“…to change the world”: Complete Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Volume 1, People’s Publishing House, p. 19.
8.
“…culture of the revolutionary proletariat”: Complete Works of Vladimir Lenin, Volume 4, People’s Publishing House, pp. 361–362.
9.
“…most important brains of this age”: Complete Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Volume 35, People’s Publishing House, p. 460.
10.
“…it were otherwise”: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Section 371: We Incomprehensible Ones.
11.
“…shows hostility to life”: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, Commercial Press, 1994, p. 110.
12.
“…and nothing besides”: Ibid, p. 696.
13.
“…return eternally”: Ibid, p. 696.
14.
“…despised and cursed”: Friedrich Nietzsche, “Ecce Home”, Trans. Clifton P. Fadiman, “Preface” p. 6, Nietzsche Philosophy, New York Modern Collection.
15.
“…some pathetic bodies”: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, Commercial Press, 1994, p. 292.
16.
“…with the increase of power”: Ibid, p. 275.
17.
“All just”: Friedrich Nietzsche, “Jenseits von Gut und Bose”, Trans. Helen Zimmern, p. 200, Nietzsche Philosophy, New York Modern Collection.
18.
“…in the future centuries”: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, Commercial Press, 1994, p. 622.
19.
“Superman”: Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Trans. Thomas Common, p. 28, Nietzsche Philosophy, New York Modern Collection.
20.
“…exactly what we need”: Quoted from Bruntinier, Nietzsche’s Philosophy and Critique of Fascism, Shanghai Chao Feng Publishing House, 1938, p. 10.
21.
“…cured my socialism”: Ibid, p. 19.
22.
“…genius and vitality”: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, quoted from Bruntinier, Nietzsche’s Philosophy and Critique of Fascism, Shanghai Chao Feng Publishing House, 1938, p. 111, p. 153.
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“…of plural philosophy”: Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy, London, 1983, p. 4.
24.
“…beliefs and customs”: Wang Yuechuan, Ed. “Friedrich Nietzsche at the Turn of the Century”, Preface to Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Qinghai People’s Publishing House, 1995, p. 3.
25.
“…wholesome spiritual personality”: Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Commercial Press, 1984.
26.
“…spiritual desire in psychoanalysis”: Sigmund Freud, Method of Psychoanalysis, quoted from History of Contemporary Western Psychology, ed. Gao Juefu, People’s Educational Publishing House, 1982, p. 370.
27.
“…sophisticated findings in psychoanalysis”: Sigmund Freud, Autobiography of Sigmund Freud, Zhi Wen Publishing House, 1985, p. 68.
28.
“…id, ego and superego”: Ibid, p. 85.
29.
“…and Electra Complex”: Sigmund Freud, A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, Commercial Press, 1984.
30.
“…of the highest level”: Ibid, p. 9.
31.
“…from the individual sacrifices”: Sigmund Freud, “Civilized Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness”, Psychology of Love, Writers’ Publishing House, 1986, p. 183.
32.
“…of Freudian psychoanalysis”: Jack J. Spector, The Aesthetics of Freud: a Study in Psychoanalysis and Art, Trans. Gao Jianping et al., Culture and Art Publishing House, 1990, p. 231.
33.
“…I fall in love”: Che Mingzhou, Wang Yuanming, The Spirit of the Times in Contemporary West, China Youth Publishing House, 1988, p. 178.
34.
“…such conquest and occupation”: Xin Qi, “Confrontation among Gods: Creed, Interest, and Boundary”, Disputes among Gods—Religious Root of International Conflicts, Sichuan People’s Publishing House, 1993, p. 148.

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Xin, Q. (2019). Thinkers Standing on the Threshold of the Century. In: A Brief History of Human Culture in the 20th Century. China Academic Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9973-2_1

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