Francois Jullien

Living Off Landscape

or the Unthought-of in Reason

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78660-337-1
EAN: 9781786603371
Produktnummer: 23807979
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 150 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.2 cm 380 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 380

Über den Autor

Francois 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 also President of the College International de Philosophie in Paris. His previous books on aesthetics have all been translated into English, including The Strange Idea of Beauty (2015), The Great Image has No Form, or On the Nonobject Through Painting (2009) and The Impossible Nude (2007).