Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 207 mm, Gewicht: 176 g
On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East
Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 207 mm, Gewicht: 176 g
ISBN: 978-1-5095-4620-6
Verlag: Wiley John + Sons
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.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations
Preface
Essencing and Absencing – Living Nowhere
Closed and Open – Spaces of Absencing
Light and Shadow – The Aesthetics of Absencing
Knowledge and Daftness – On the Way to Paradise
Land and Sea – Strategies of Thinking
Doing and Happening: Beyond Active and Passive
Greeting and Bowing – Friendliness
Notes
