Absence
On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East
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Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence ...
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Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The fundamental topos of Far Eastern thinking is not being but ‘the way’ (dao), which lacks the solidity and fixedness of essence. The difference between essence and absence is the difference between being and path, between dwelling and wandering. ‘A Zen monk should be without fixed abode, like the clouds, and without fixed support, like water’, said the Japanese Zen master Dogen. Drawing on this fundamental distinction between essence and absence, Byung-Chul Han explores the differences between Western and Far Eastern philosophy, aesthetics, architecture and art, shedding fresh light on a culture of absence that may at first sight appear strange and unfamiliar to those in the West whose ways of thinking have been shaped for centuries by the preoccupation with essence.
Detaljer
Forlag
Polity Press
ISBN
9781509546206
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
128
Udgivelsesdato
17-03-2023
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3183173
EAN nr.
9781509546206
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
Højde/Dybde (mm)
210
Bredde (mm)
139
Længde (mm)
12
Vægt (g)
178