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Absence
- On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East
Engelsk Paperback
Absence
- On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East
Engelsk Paperback

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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 Dōgen.

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.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
128
ISBN-13:
9781509546206
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1509546200
Udg. Dato:
17 mar 2023
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
210mm
Højde:
139mm
Forlag:
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Oplagsdato:
17 mar 2023
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