Deleuzian (Re)interpretation of Zhu Xi
| Autor: | Margus Ott |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Japanese<br />Korean<br />Chinese |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Asian Studies, Vol 8, Iss 2 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2232-5131 2350-4226 |
| DOI: | 10.4312/as.2020.8.2.281-310 |
| Popis: | I propose an interpretation of Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130–1200) seen through the ontology of Gilles Deleuze. Zhu Xi is one of the most prominent Chinese philosophers, the figurehead of the so-called Neo-Confucian school, and Deleuze is arguably one of the most important Western philosophers of the twentieth century. Both philosophers presented an ontology of differentiation, whose main aspects or stages I try to analyse in the paper: Deleuze’s notions of the virtual, dark precursor, field of individuation, intensities and the actual; and parallel to these, Zhu Xi’s notions of the veins (li 理), supreme ultimate (taiji 太極), energy (qi 氣), and things (wu 物). It is argued that a Deleuzian (re)interpretation of Zhu Xi is possible and that it may open new tools of analysis for studying Chinese philosophy as well as create a conceptual space that can bring together concepts and practices from different traditions. |
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