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The purpose of Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Aesthetics is simple and straightforward: to discuss empty, nothing, opening, white, nature color, blankness, and different delicate senses, in ink-water painting and calligraphy, around discourses of poetics, philosophy ideas, and art critics.
Because xu has inner plasticity and re-generation, which are crucial for its aesthetic discourse, the relation between "nature" or "naturalness" and "emptiness" approaches a fundamental question of modernity-the relation between event revolution and "silent transformation."
List of contents
List of Figures - Acknowledgments - Introduction: Infra-White-An Impossible Beginning - Color and White, the Blank Canvas: The Reverse Reconstruction of Non-Dimension - Remnant and White, Color and Blankness, Qi and White - Empty and White, Empty-Empty-Substance-Substance, the Empty Room Filled with Light - The White Layout of the "Woodcutters Fighting for the Path": The Ethics of Remnant Yielding - Jade and White, Snow and White, Light and White - "Black-and-Blankism" and the Silent Transformation of Invisibility - Appendix: The Ink Art of Chen Guangwu: Fasting of the Mind and Interval-Blankness of Chora - Index.
About the author
Kejun Xia is a philosopher, critic and curator. Xia received his PhD from Wuhan University in China, and completed his post-doctoral work at Universität Freiburg and Université de Strasbourg (following Jean-Luc Nancy). Xia has published more than ten books, including
Waiting and Useless Nation: Zhuangzi and Heidegger's Second Turn(2017) and
The Theology of Uselessness: Benjamin, Heidegger and Zhuangzi(2019).
Summary
The purpose of Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Aesthetics is simple and straightforward: to discuss empty, nothing, opening, white, nature color, blankness, and different delicate senses, in Ink-Water painting and calligraphy, around discourses of poetics, philosophy ideas and art critics.
