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The Question Concerning Technology in China - An Essay in Cosmotechnics (Paperback)
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The Question Concerning Technology in China - An Essay in Cosmotechnics (Paperback)
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A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an
investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern
technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a
renewed questioning of globalized technics. Heidegger's critique of
modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely
accepted in the East. Yet the conception that there is only
one-originally Greek-type of technics has been an obstacle to any
original critical thinking of technology in modern Chinese thought.
Yuk Hui argues for the urgency of imagining a specifically Chinese
philosophy of technology capable of responding to Heidegger's
challenge, while problematizing the affirmation of technics and
technologies as anthropologically universal. This investigation of
the historical-metaphysical question of technology, drawing on
Lyotard, Simondon, and Stiegler, and introducing a history of
modern Eastern philosophical thinking largely unknown to Western
readers, including philosophers such as Feng Youlan, Mou Zongsan,
and Keiji Nishitani, sheds new light on the obscurity of the
question of technology in China. Why was technics never thematized
in Chinese thought? Why has time never been a real question for
Chinese philosophy? How was the traditional concept of Qi
transformed in its relation to Dao as China welcomed technological
modernity and westernization? In The Question Concerning Technology
in China, a systematic historical survey of the major concepts of
traditional Chinese thinking is followed by a startlingly original
investigation of these questions, in order to ask how Chinese
thought might today contribute to a renewed, cosmotechnical
questioning of globalized technics.
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