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Absence : on the culture and philosophy of the Far East
- Title
- Absence : on the culture and philosophy of the Far East / Byung-Chul Han ; translated by Daniel Steuer.
- Author
- Han, Byung-Chul
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Hoboken, New Jersey : Polity Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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- Steuer, Daniel
- Description
- xi, 115 pages : illustrations (black and white); 22 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Uniform Title
- Abwesen : zur Kultur und Philosophie des fernen Ostens. English. 2023
- Alternative Title
- Abwesen : zur Kultur und Philosophie des fernen Ostens. 2023
- Subject
- Note
- Originally published in German as Abwesen : zur Kultur und Philosophie des fernen Ostens © Merve Verlag, 2007.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-115).
- Contents
- Essencing and absencing : living nowhere -- Closed and open : spaces of absencing -- Light and shadow : the aesthetics of absencing -- Knowledge and daftness : on the way to paradise -- Land and sea : strategies of thinking -- Doing and happening : beyond active and passive -- Greeting and bowing : friendliness.
- ISBN
- 9781509546190
- 1509546197
- 9781509546206
- 1509546200
- 9781509546213 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1329422095
- on1329422095
- SCSB-14494179
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library