James Garrison, "Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy" (SUNY Press, 2021)
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Defucionism and Self-Cultivation in East Asia
Aristotelian conceive of metaphysics is first philosophy, but where are? Aesthetics here is meant in the sort of classical sense of this thesos of a sensitivity, of receptivity. And what i see happening within a number of self cultivation traditions in east asia,. articulated rather powerfully within confucionism. These are techniques o how we a sort of occupy space, time, a social space, time can a be graceful with the right sort of ritual attention.
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