Living Off Landscape

or the Unthought-of in Reason

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Francois Jullien

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Is it only through vision that we can perceive a landscape? Is the space opened by the landscape truly an expanse cut off by the horizon? Do we observe a landscape in the way that we watch a 'show'? What, ultimately, does it mean to 'look'?In this important new book, one of France's most influential living theorists argues that the first civilization to truly consider landscape was China. In giving landscape the name 'mountain(s)-water(s)', the Chinese language provides a powerful alternative to Western biases. The Chinese conception speaks of a correlation between high and low, between the still and the motile, between what has form and what is formless, between what we see and what we hear. No longer a matter of 'vision', landscape becomes a matter of living. Francois Jullien invites the reader to explore reason's unthought choices, and to take a fresh look at our more basic involvement in the world.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-01-17
Mått158 x 240 x 17 mm
Vikt390 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal Aesthetic Research
Antal sidor148
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781786603371
ÖversättareRodriguez, Pedro

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Francois Jullien, Professor, Universite de Paris-Diderot and Chair of Alterity, Fondation Maisondes Sciences de l'HommeFrancois Jullien is Professor and Chair of the Department of Oriental Studies at Universite de Paris-Diderot and Chair of Alterity at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. He is alsoPresident of the College International de Philosophie in Paris. His previous books on aestheticshave all been translated into English, including The Strange Idea of Beauty (2015), The Great Imagehas No Form, or On the Nonobject Through Painting (2009) and The Impossible Nude (2007).Pedro Rodriguez, translator

Francois Jullien's rich exploration of what he calls "landscape thought" raises awareness of the cultural conditioning that obscures understanding and renders new thought impossible. Through his focus on environmental aesthetics in China and Europe he provides us with a philosophical method for productive possibilities of global engagement at all levels. This is a comparatist scholarship for a globally articulated time.?