From Metaphysical Representations to Aesthetic Life
Toward the Encounter with the Other in the Perspective of Daoism
Seiten
2023
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9364-0 (ISBN)
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9364-0 (ISBN)
Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.
What is "Chinese philosophy?" What is "philosophy" itself? How can one understand unfamiliar philosophical stances? How can comparison become a prominent philosophical tool? In this book, Massimiliano Lacertosa examines these questions by proposing an ethical understanding of the aesthetic encounter with the other and the world. Through the analysis of the works of Laozi, Zhuangzi, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, among others, this book explores the possibilities of stepping out of the anthropocentric standpoint and seeing the relation of objects in the world under a different light. This implies a shift from the metaphysical representation of the world divided between the sensible and the supersensible to an aesthetic and undivided experience of the world in which one partakes in the constant transformation of the myriad things. Approachable yet rigorous, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the most fundamental issues of philosophy and in the challenges of doing philosophy in a multicultural context.
What is "Chinese philosophy?" What is "philosophy" itself? How can one understand unfamiliar philosophical stances? How can comparison become a prominent philosophical tool? In this book, Massimiliano Lacertosa examines these questions by proposing an ethical understanding of the aesthetic encounter with the other and the world. Through the analysis of the works of Laozi, Zhuangzi, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, among others, this book explores the possibilities of stepping out of the anthropocentric standpoint and seeing the relation of objects in the world under a different light. This implies a shift from the metaphysical representation of the world divided between the sensible and the supersensible to an aesthetic and undivided experience of the world in which one partakes in the constant transformation of the myriad things. Approachable yet rigorous, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the most fundamental issues of philosophy and in the challenges of doing philosophy in a multicultural context.
Massimiliano Lacertosa is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on the Text
Introduction
1. Toward the Encounter with the Other
2. From Worldview to Metaphor
3. From Metaphor to Ethics
4. From Ethics to Ziran 自然
5. From Ziran 自然 to Aesthetics
Returning to the Beginning (by Way of Conclusion)
Notes
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-9364-9 / 1438493649 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-9364-0 / 9781438493640 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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