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

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Date: 23 Nov 2022 05:42:43
Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy

James Garrison, "Reconsidering the Life of Power: Ritual, Body, and Art in Critical Theory and Chinese Philosophy "
English | ISBN: 1438482116 | 2021 | 234 pages | PDF | 2 MB

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

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