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Detour and Access - Strategies of Meaning in China and Greece (Paperback)
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Detour and Access - Strategies of Meaning in China and Greece (Paperback)
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An exploration of the central role of indirect modes of expression
in ancient China. 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.
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