Xia Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Aesthetics

Unthought of Empty
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4331-6452-1
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 128 Seiten

The purpose of Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Aesthetics is simple and straightforward: to discuss empty, nothing, opening, white, nature color, blankness, and different delicate senses, in ink-water painting and calligraphy, around discourses of poetics, philosophy ideas, and art critics. Because xu has inner plasticity and re-generation, which are crucial for its aesthetic discourse, the relation between "nature" or "naturalness" and "emptiness" approaches a fundamental question of modernity—the relation between event revolution and "silent transformation."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Xia, Kejun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures – Acknowledgments– Introduction: Infra-White—An Impossible Beginning – Color and White, the Blank Canvas: The Reverse Reconstruction of Non-Dimension – Remnant and White, Color and Blankness, Qi and White – Empty and White, Empty—Empty—Substance—Substance, the Empty Room Filled with Light – The White Layout of the "Woodcutters Fighting for the Path": The Ethics of Remnant Yielding – Jade and White, Snow and White, Light and White – "Black-and-Blankism" and the Silent Transformation of Invisibility – Appendix: The Ink Art of Chen Guangwu: Fasting of the Mind and Interval-Blankness of Chora – Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Kejun Xia is a philosopher, critic and curator. Xia received his PhD from Wuhan University in China, and completed his post-doctoral work at Universität Freiburg and Université de Strasbourg (following Jean-Luc Nancy). Xia has published more than ten books, including Waiting and Useless Nation: Zhuangzi and Heidegger’s Second Turn (2017) and The Theology of Uselessness: Benjamin, Heidegger and Zhuangzi (2019).