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Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East - Softcover

Han, Byung-Chul

 
9781509546206: Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1509546200 ISBN 13: 9781509546206
Verlag: Polity, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

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 Dōgen.

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Byung-Chul Han is a full-time writer and the author of more than twenty books including The Scent of Time, Saving Beauty and The Burnout Society.

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509546200
ISBN 13 
9781509546206
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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