Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East by Byung-Chul Han

Absence: On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East

Byung-Chul Han with Daniel Steuer (Translator)

128 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

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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 Ea...

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