Франсуа Жюльен — новинки

Книга выдающегося французского синолога Франсуа Жюльена, профессора философии Сорбонны и директора Института Марселя Гране, представляет собой сравнительный анализ европейской и китайской живописи. По мнению автора, китайская живопись является подлинной философией жизни, которая, в отличие от европейского искусства, не стремится к объективности и не желает быть открытым «окном в мир», предназначенным для единственной истинной точки зрения. Отсутствие формы у великих образов китайского искусства означает, что данная эстетика пытается уловить непрерывное движение и перетекание форм друг в друга, которое стирает ясные очертания вещей и…

Автор использует китайскую мысль, чтобы разобраться в проблемах, поставленных в западноевропейских концепциях времени. Китайская мысль создала представление о "моменте", о "сезоне" и о "длительности", но не поместила их в рамку, которая была бы

In what way do we benefit from speaking of things indirectly? How does such a distancing allow us better to discover -- and describe -- people and objects? How does distancing produce an effect? What can we gain from approaching the world obliquely? In other words, how does detour grant access?Thus begins Francois Jullien's investigation into the strategy, subtlety, and production of meaning in ancient and modern Chinese aesthetic and political texts and events. Moving between the rhetorical traditions of ancient Greece and China, Jullien does not attempt a simple comparison of the two civilizations. Instead, he uses the perspective provided by each to gain access into a culture considered by many Westerners to be strange -- -It's all Chinese to me- -- and whose strangeness has been eclipsed through the assumption of its familiarity. He also uses the comparison to shed light on the role of Greek thinking in Western civilization.Jullien rereads the major texts of Chinese thought -- The Book of Songs, Confucius's Analects, and the work of Mencius and Lao-Tse. He addresses the question of oblique, indirect, and allusive meaning in order to explore how the techniques of detour provide access to subtler meanings than are attainable through direct approaches. Indirect speech, Jullien concludes, yields a complex mode of indication, open to multiple perspectives and variations, infinitely adaptable to particular situations and contexts. Concentrating on that which is not said, or which is spoken only through other means, Jullien traces the benefits and costs of this rhetorical strategy in which absolute truth is absent.

Если греческая античность на протяжении веков мыслилась европейцами (и русскими) как свое, «родное» и славное прошлое, то Китаю отводилась роль «другого», некоторой вечной экзотики. Современный французский философ Франсуа Жюльен приглашает читателя к путешествию на Запад через Восток: через китайскую классику к собственным истокам. Сопоставляя две традиции, автор видит в них осуществление двух возможных стратегий деятельности (в том числе и прежде всего — деятельности смыслопорождающей и смыслопридающей). Для греков это — прямой путь доблести в честном бою и в судебном разбирательстве, напряженный поиск истины в драматическом действе и философском диалоге. Для китайцев — путь уклончивости, иносказания, игра намеками в поэзии и политике, навык чтения между строк и высказывания между делом... Но возможно, проведя различение до конца, мы обнаружим и в Китае немало близкого и понятного нам, и в самих себе — немало «китайского»?

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In Detour and Access, François Jullien investigates the subtlety, strategy, and production of meaning in ancient and modern Chinese aesthetic texts and political events. Moving between the rhetorical traditions of ancient Greece and China, Jullien attempts no simple comparison between these two civilizations. Rather, he uses the perspective provided by each to gain access to one culture considered all too strange -- "It's all Chinese to me" -- and to another whose strangeness has been eclipsed by the assumption of its essential familiarity and originary position in Western civilization.

In Detour and Access, Jullien rereads the major texts and authors of Chinese thought -- The Book of Songs, Confucius's Analects, Mencius, and Lao Tse. He addresses the question of oblique, indirect, and allusive meaning in order to explore how literary and political techniques of detour give access to a world of symbolization and truth not characterized by simple modes of mimetic representation and static essentialism.

Working indirectly, favoring the allusive expression over the direct one, the Chinese art of meaning appears as a complex mode of indication, open to multiple perspectives and variations, infinitely adaptable to situations and contexts. Concentrating on what is not said, or what is only conveyed through other means -- such as the distancing produced by allusive poetic and political motifs -- Jullien traces the ideological and aesthetic benefits and costs of a rhetorical strategy that lacks a fixed ontological perspective and absolute truth.

Illuminating in its close textual readings, provocative and sophisticated in its theoretical insights and political analyses, Detour and Access provides a necessary refinement of ways of thinking about Chinese strategies of meaning as yet unanalyzed in the Western world.

In this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, François Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi -- disposition or circumstance, power or potential -- as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate and coherent structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking.

This term -- whose very ambivalence and disconcerting polysemy, on the one hand, and simple efficacy, on the other, defy the order of a concept -- insinuates itself into the ordering and conditioning of reality in all its manifold and complex representations. Jullien traces its appearance from military strategy to politics, from the aesthetics of calligraphy and painting to the theory of literature, and from reflection on history to "first philosophy."

At the point where these various domains intersect, a fundamental intuition, assumed to be self-evident for centuries on end, emerges: namely, that reality -- every kind of reality -- may be perceived as a particular deployment or arrangement of things to be relied upon and worked to one's advantage. Art or wisdom, as conceived by the Chinese, lies in strategically exploiting the propensity that emanates from this particular configuration of reality. Jullien's analysis of shi and his excursion through Chinese culture ultimately deepen our own comprehension of the world of things and renew the impulse to discover the endless pleasures of inquiry.

In this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, François Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi -- disposition or circumstance, power or potential -- as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate and coherent structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking.

This term -- whose very ambivalence and disconcerting polysemy, on the one hand, and simple efficacy, on the other, defy the order of a concept -- insinuates itself into the ordering and conditioning of reality in all its manifold and complex representations. Jullien traces its appearance from military strategy to politics, from the aesthetics of calligraphy and painting to the theory of literature, and from reflection on history to "first philosophy."

At the point where these various domains intersect, a fundamental intuition, assumed to be self-evident for centuries on end, emerges: namely, that reality -- every kind of reality -- may be perceived as a particular deployment or arrangement of things to be relied upon and worked to one's advantage. Art or wisdom, as conceived by the Chinese, lies in strategically exploiting the propensity that emanates from this particular configuration of reality. Jullien's analysis of shi and his excursion through Chinese culture ultimately deepen our own comprehension of the world of things and renew the impulse to discover the endless pleasures of inquiry.