Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:François Jullien, Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:9/10/2024Pages:178
Language:EnglishPublisher:Zone BooksISBN-13:9781890951214ISBN-10:1890951218UPC:9781890951214Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Eastern, History & SurveysBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC65ZC5VJD
Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness
An intellectual history of the concept of life and body politics in Chinese philosophy
The philosophical tradition in the West has always subjected life to conceptual divisions and questions about meaning. Although this process has given rise to a rich history of inquiry, it proceeds too fast, contends François Jullien. In its anxiety about meaning, Western thinkers since Plato have forgotten...Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Zone BooksISBN-13:9781890951214ISBN-10:1890951218UPC:9781890951214Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Eastern, History & SurveysBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC65ZC5VJD
François Jullien is professor at the University of Paris Diderot and director of the Institut de la Pensée Contemporaine. He is the author of The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China; Detour and Access: Strategies of Meaning in China and Greece; and In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics.
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