Han Byung - Chul
Han Byung - Chul - Absence On The Culture And Philosophy Of The Far East - Paperback
Han Byung - Chul - Absence On The Culture And Philosophy Of The Far East - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Absence On The Culture And Philosophy Of The Far East
Author(s): Han Byung - Chul
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9781509546206
Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Date: 5/15/2023
Category: History Of Ideas
Description: 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.
Title: Absence On The Culture And Philosophy Of The Far East
Author(s): Han Byung - Chul
Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd
Barcode: 9781509546206
Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Date: 5/15/2023
Category: History Of Ideas
