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Author : François Jullien
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 14,5 MB
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : Philosophy
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In this highly insightful analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, François Jullien subtly delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilizations to account for diverging patterns of action in warfare, politics, and diplomacy. He shows how Western and Chinese strategies work in several domains (the battlefield, for example) and analyzes two resulting acts of war. The Chinese strategist manipulates his own troops and the enemy to win a battle without waging war and to bring about victory effortlessly. Efficacity in China is thus conceived of in terms of transformation (as opposed to action) and manipulation, making it closer to what is understood as efficacy in the West. Jullien’s brilliant interpretations of an array of recondite texts are key to understanding our own conceptions of action, time, and reality in this foray into the world of Chinese thought. In its clear and penetrating characterization of two contrasting views of reality from a heretofore unexplored perspective, A Treatise on Efficacy will be of central importance in the intellectual debate between East and West.

Author : François Jullien
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0824843142

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In this highly insightful analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, François Jullien subtly delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilizations to account for diverging patterns of action in warfare, politics, and diplomacy. He shows how Western and Chinese strategies work in several domains (the battlefield, for example) and analyzes two resulting acts of war. The Chinese strategist manipulates his own troops and the enemy to win a battle without waging war and to bring about victory effortlessly. Efficacity in China is thus conceived of in terms of transformation (as opposed to action) and manipulation, making it closer to what is understood as efficacy in the West. Jullien’s brilliant interpretations of an array of recondite texts are key to understanding our own conceptions of action, time, and reality in this foray into the world of Chinese thought. In its clear and penetrating characterization of two contrasting views of reality from a heretofore unexplored perspective, A Treatise on Efficacy will be of central importance in the intellectual debate between East and West.

Author : François Jullien
Publisher : Zone Books (NY)
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781890951429

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A consideration of blandness not as the absence of defining qualities but as the harmonious union of all potential values--an infinite opening into human experience.

Author : Sendhil Mullainathan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0805092641

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A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture

Author : François Jullien
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2024-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1890951218

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A philosophical inquiry into how to "feed life," or nourish it, draws from early Chinese thinker Zhuanghi to explore notions of breath, energy, and immanence.

Author : François Jullien
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,71 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780942299953

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In this book, his first to appear in English, French sinologist François Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi--meaning disposition or circumstance, power or potential--as a touchstone to explore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate structure underlying Chinese modes of thinking.

Author : Andrew Scobell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 2003-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521525855

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In this unique study of China s militarism, Andrew Scobell examines the use of military force abroad - as in Korea (1950), Vietnam (1979), and the Taiwan Strait (1995 1996) - and domestically, as during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and in the 1989 military crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Debunking the view that China has become increasingly belligerent in recent years because of the growing influence of soldiers, Scobell concludes that China s strategic culture has remained unchanged for decades. Nevertheless, the author uncovers the existence of a Cult of Defense in Chinese strategic culture. The author warns that this Cult of Defense disposes Chinese leaders to rationalize all military deployment as defensive, while changes in the People s Liberation Army s doctrine and capabilities over the past two decades suggest that China s twenty-first century leaders may use military force more readily than their predecessors.

Author : Albert Bandura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 1997-05-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521586962

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The volume addresses important issues of human adaptation and change.