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Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East

Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East

Han, Byung-Chul
Steuer, Daniel

Paperback

General Eastern Religions

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1509546200
ISBN13: 9781509546206
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: May 22 2023
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The fundamental topos of Far Eastern thinking is not being but 'the way' (dao), which lacks the solidity and fixedness of essence. The difference between essence and absence is the difference between being and path, between dwelling and wandering. 'A Zen monk should be without fixed abode, like the clouds, and without fixed support, like water', said the Japanese Zen master Dōgen.

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