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Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy

Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy

Garrison, James

Hardcover

Series: Suny Chinese Philosophy and Culture

PhilosophyConfucianismGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 1438482116
ISBN13: 9781438482118
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Mar 1 2021
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Offers a compelling intercultural perspective on body, art, self, and society.

Reconsidering the Life of Power examines Chinese perspectives on bodily self-cultivation and explores how these can be resources for working past the ritual scripts of everyday life. In recent decades, European and American thinkers like Michel Foucault and Judith Butler have called attention to the way that people live out ritual scripts in order to be recognized by other people such that they might survive. Philosophers in China, however, have a long history of considering ritual not just in terms of confining power structures but also in terms of empowering artistic self-cultivation. Out of this convergence, a response to Butler's The Psychic Life of Power becomes possible, along with fascinating implications for improving real-world experience.

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