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Living Off Landscape - Or the Unthought-Of in Reason

English · Paperback / Softback

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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.

List of contents










Prologue / 1. Land - Landscape: Expanse, View, Cut-Off / 2. "Mountain(s)-Water(s)" / 3. From a Landscape to Living / 4. When the Perceptual Turns Out to Be Affectual / 5. When "Spirit" Emanates from the Physical / 6. Tension-Setting / 7. Singularization, Variation, Remove / 8. Connivance / Epilogue / Index

About the author










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).

Summary

In giving landscape the name 'mountain(s)-water(s)', the Chinese language provides a powerful alternative to Western biases. 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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