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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garrison, James.

Series:

SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Chinese.

Aesthetics, Chinese.

Critical theory--China.

Critical theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Reconsidering the Life of Power

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Subjectivation

Autonomy

Ritual Propriety-Lĭ 礼

Subjectality

Technique in Appearance

Somaesthetics

Conclusion

Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Work: A Statement on Method

Rhizomes, Embryos, and Growth in Between

Intercultural Philosophy

Growing the Rhizome

Chapter 1 Subjectivation/Subjection

Preliminary Remarks: Butler on Subjectivation/Subjection

Foucault's Prison: Subjectivation in the Panopticon

Hailed into Existence: Interpellation

Misrecognition and Limited Freedom from Sign Chains

Kantian Responses to Subjectivation/Subjection

Kant on Purposiveness and the Artwork's Negative Freedom

Hegel on the Artisan and Recognition

Nietzsche on the Artistically Creating Subject

Art as Another "Other" and Novelty in Self-Recognition

Chapter 2 Autonomy and Appearance in Artful Ritual Practice

Preliminary Remarks: The Modern Alienation of Art and Practice in the Unhappy Artworld

The Early Human World: The Historical Link between Art and Ritual Practice

Arendt on Purposiveness, Appearance in the World, and Art

Bringing Art and Novel Recognition into Play in Everyday Encounters

Chapter 3 Confucianism and Lĭ 禮/礼: Ritual Propriety, Music, and the Arts

Preliminary Remarks: The Relational, Discursive, Bodily, and Ritually Impelled Person in Confucianism

A Background Vocabulary of Music in Reference to Ritual

Ritual and Music in Confucianism

Xún Zĭ 子 on Ritual Lĭ in Regard to Distinction and Difference

Xún Zĭ on Ritual and Music

Moving the Classical Confucian Framework of Ritual and Music Forward

Chapter 4 Subjectality

Preliminary Remarks: Collective Unconsciousness in Species-Level Subjectality and "Individual" Consciousness in Subjectivation.

Kant and the World Observer

Arendt's Remarks on Kant

Lĭ Zéhòu and Kant

Hannah Arendt and Lĭ Zéhòu on Kantian Purposiveness in Human Affairs

Chapter 5 Technique in Appearance

Preliminary Remarks: Apprehension, Appearance, and Concern

Stiegler on Technique and Memory

Reassessing Stiegler and Ritual Technique in Appearance

Chapter 6 Somaesthetics

Preliminary Remarks: Somaesthetics and Subjectivation

Somaesthetics: Rethinking Bodily Cultivation

Somaesthetic Practice: A Resource for Expanding Subject Life or Another Means of Control?

Confucian Perspectives on the Development of Ritual Propriety: Inside or Outside of Human Nature?

Mencius on Human Nature and Ritual

Xún Zĭ on Human Nature

Xún Zi's Restricted Usefulness for Somaesthetics and the Potential Value of New Approaches to Mencius

Assessing Somaesthetics with Regard to Mencius and Xún Zĭ

Final Thoughts

Changing the Stakes

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781438482125

1438482124

OCLC:

1241449911