50th
Anniversary
Introduction
Chien-Feng
Wei (Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Law, Soochow University)
Special Issue Article
1. Thought and Words and Anthropology in
Taiwan
Hsun
Chang (Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Institute of Ethnology, Academia
Sinica)
2. Historical
Practices of Thought and Words: A Survey in the Context of Taiwanese Historiography
Kuang-Che
Pan (Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)
3. Reviewing
the Role of Thought and Words in the
Development of Philosophy in Taiwan
An-Wu
Lin (Professor & Director, Institute of Religions and Humanities, Tzu-Chi
University)
4. A
River of Taiwanese Sociology Running through Thought and Words
Chung-Ming
Wang (Professor, Center for General Education, Tunghai University)
5. Doctrinal
Studies of Law and Legal Diversity: Taiwan’s Jurisprudential Development in Thought and Words
Chia-Yin
Chang (Professor, Department of Law, Shih-Hsin University)
6. Thought
and Words and the Development of Taiwan’s Economics Discipline
Cheng-Ping
Cheng (Associate Professor, Department of Finance, National Yunlin University
of Science and Technology)
Supplements
1. 50th
Anniversary Congratulatory Message
Cho-Yun
Hsu et al. (Academicians, Academia Sinica)
2. Rejuvenating
the Ethos of Policy Discussions and Recommendations: Political Science Articles
Published in the Thought and Words
for the Past Ten Years
Sy-Shyan
Chen (Professor, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University)
3. Thought and Words 50th Complete List
The Thought and Words Association
The Thought and Words Association
Special Issue Article
Thought and Words and Anthropology in Taiwan
Hsun
Chang (Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Institute of Ethnology, Academia
Sinica)
This article is a review article. It starts with the review on
articles written by anthropologists in the first volume in 1963 to the fiftieth
volume in 2012 of the journal Thought and
Words. The author concludes that Thought
and Words have made a contribution in building anthropology in Taiwan.
Taiwanese anthropologists publish their research on important issues such as 1.
Han Chinese culture in Taiwan, 2. social change in Taiwan, 3. Folk religion in
Taiwan, 4. Aborigines studies, in Thought
and Words.
Keywords:
anthropology, Han Chinese in Taiwan, social change, folk religion
Historical Practices of Thought and Words: A Survey in the Context
of Taiwanese Historiography
Kuang-Che
Pan (Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)
This essay provides observations about the historical practices of
the journal Thought and Words
(established in 1963), while also analyzing such practices in the context of
Taiwanese historiography. The author pays close attention to the influence
exerted by articles published in Thought
and Words, and does so from a range of different perspectives. First, these
works criticized old-fashioned historical practices, and advocated that
scholars strive to combine the methodologies of history and the social
sciences. In addition, they helped stimulate new perspectives on academia, and
supplied new ideas and materials from the world of liberal arts education for
younger generations of scholars interested in interdisciplinary research. Taken
as a whole, the articles that appeared in Thought
and Word reflect unique developments in the methods and practices of
Taiwanese historiography.
Keywords:
Thought and Words, historical practices, Taiwanese Historiography
Reviewing the Role of Thought and Words in the Development of Philosophy in Taiwan
An-Wu
Lin (Professor & Director, Institute of Religions and Humanities, Tzu-Chi
University)
This paper aims at investigating the philosophical dimension of the
journal of Thought and Words and, based on this, discusses the development of
philosophy in Taiwan. It shows that this journal has existed so long partly due
to the convergence of liberal and conservative camps in Taiwan, in which this
journal has suggested a theoretical direction for academic practice. It then
turns to a philosophical interpretation of the “Inaugural statement” of Thought
and Words, and recognizes the journal’s enlightenment spirit from the May
Fourth Movement and its emphasis on the practicability of empiricism. This
paper also indicates that its main concerns are social science, anthropology
and psychology. Its philosophical discourses are more on concrete and practical
issues. Nonetheless, this atmosphere may lead to a new wave of thought in
Taiwan.
A comparison of the philosophical reflections of this journal in the
1990s and the present shows its development from the period of Martial Law to
that of the abolishment of Martial Law. There could still be some poverty of
philosophy in Taiwan, but there are also some new possibilities since it has
already directed its attention to the rediscovery of the meaning of life-world,
the socio-historical totality and political-economic activities. Through the
contrast between the perspectives of continuity of being and discontinuity of
being, this paper presents the difference between the East and the West and
suggests the potentiality of the communication of and the integration of both
sides.
Keywords:
being, scientism, life-world, alienation, therapy
A River of Taiwanese Sociology Running through Thought and Words
Chung-Ming
Wang (Professor, Center for General Education, Tunghai University)
Till now, after 50 years, Thought
and Words: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences never stops to
introduce new subjects and issues of sociology, and to encourage “fresh men”
who would like to be a sociologist, publishing their papers by the facilitating
of editors of this journal. Therefore, Thought and Word is a famous
intellectual journal in Taiwanese sociological community. Right now, Most of
the “fresh man” not only really become sociologist, but also very active in
general education, to share their knowledge of sociology with students, who
their major are not in sociology.
However, at the same time, ridiculously, Taiwanese sociological
community becomes more and more instrumentalist. Even criticizing the
instrumentalism has become the sociologist’s second nature. Today, most of
Taiwanese sociologists prefer publishing their papers in the TSSCI or SSCI,
than doing in Thought and Words,
because the latter is not TSSCI.
After 50 years, Thought and
Words is still living in Taiwanese sociologist community, and keeps to
encourage the “fresh man” to publish their papers. If one day Taiwanese
sociologists really lost their passion and never abandon instrumentalism, maybe
the dying time of Thought and Words, will be coming.
Fortunately, a lot of “fresh men”, who become sociologists or other
intellectual field’s professor, come back here to be the editors or general
editor, and to manage this intellectual journal, which has incubated many
excellent professors or intellectual researchers.
Keywords:
Thought and Words, Taiwanese Sociology,
development
Doctrinal Studies of Law and Legal Diversity: Taiwan’s
Jurisprudential Development in Thought and Words
Chia-Yin
Chang (Professor, Department of Law, Shih-Hsin University)
This paper retrospectively studies academic articles that have been
published on the journal, Thought and Words in the past fifty years. It
identifies that,although Thought and Words advocates interdisciplinary studies,
this journal more focused on doctrinal studies of law in the first forty years.
But Thought and Words has switched gears and accepted diversified articles of
legal studies during the last ten years. This phenomenon is related to the fact
that Thought and Words has adopted the special session as its focal point and
reflects Taiwan’s contemporary development of jurisprudence. In parallel with
this phenomenon this paper also reviews the idea of doctrinal studies of law as
the paradigm of jurisprudence in Taiwanand its limitation from the perspective
of works that investigate the nature of jurisprudence and doctrinal studies of
law in Germany. This paper argues that legal studies in Taiwan should head for
multiple developments and interdisciplinary studies on law. The attitude toward
articles that Thought and Words should adopt is to keep its current policyto
strengthen the jurisprudential diversity and interdisciplinary studies on law.
Keywords:
Jurisprudence, doctrinal studies of law, branched studies of law,
interdisciplinary studies on law, jurisprudential diversity
Thought and Words and the Development of Taiwan’s Economics Discipline
Cheng-Ping
Cheng (Associate Professor, Department of Finance, National Yunlin University
of Science and Technology)
The paper explores the mutual influence between Thought and Words and Taiwan’s Economic Discipline in past 50
years. First, I analyze the common characteristics of the research topics and
those economists who involved in the Journal. Second, I study the feature of
the development of Taiwan’s economic discipline, especially from the
perspective of Americanization of Taiwan’s Economics. I find that Taiwan’s
economists lack of the Taiwanese consciousness, in one hand, and are weak in
solving the practical economic issues happened in Taiwan, on the other hand.
Final, I assert that the function of Journal could be a complement of Taiwan
economics discipline which has two significant weaknesses – lack of Taiwanese
consciousness and poor in dialogue with other disciplines.
Keywords:
Thought and Words, Taiwan’s Economics
Discipline, Americanization, Taiwanization
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