The Rhythm of Action
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Mario Wenning
Abstract
Classical Chinese philosophy, and Daoism in particular, has emphasized the importance of rhythm for performing actions well. Drawing on this insight, the paper argues that rhythm is an essential element of nourishing life. A focus on the relationship between rhythm, action, and life becomes necessary in societies that are experiencing a crisis of temporal relationships. Modern agents are pressured to adapt to accelerating speeds that are increasingly experienced as undermining the conditions necessary for human flourishing. A critical theory of temporal relationships is committed to (1) revealing and explaining the increase of rhythmic pathologies and to (2) recovering “eurhythms” that enable exemplary action and human flourishing.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Aesthetics and Life-World in German-Chinese Dialogue
- I: Kantian Aesthetics as a Starting Point – 从康德美学出发
- Symbolizing an Infinite World – Kant’s Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment, its Transcultural Dimension, and Jullien’s Critique of its Limits
- Aesthetic Cognition
- Aesthetic Ideality Versus Ontological Temporality
- Aesthetic Education in Confucius, Xunzi, and Kant
- Light is Space
- II: Aesthetics and Everyday Life – 美学和日常生活
- The Love of Beauty for the Good Life
- Art and Technology
- There Are More Things in (Life) World…
- The Rhythm of Action
- III: Living Aesthetics and Art – 生活美学和艺术
- Thinking and Poetry
- The Standard of Taste in David Hume’s Philosophy
- An Intercultural Interpretation on Heidegger’s Poet
- A Dreamed Form of Being
- Die Fadheit als Lebenskonzept in der chinesischen Kultur
- Information, Communication and Art
- IV: Aesthetics as Philosophy of Arts – 作为艺术哲学的美学
- Techné, Life-world, and Art
- Aesthetic Judgments and Their Cultural Grounding
- From Cézanne’s Doubt to Ai Weiwei’s Subversive Engagement
- Das Bild als Phänomen
- V: Varia and Miscellaneous – 杂文拾翠
- Perpetual Thriving
- Biobibliography
- Biobibliography
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Aesthetics and Life-World in German-Chinese Dialogue
- I: Kantian Aesthetics as a Starting Point – 从康德美学出发
- Symbolizing an Infinite World – Kant’s Analytic of Aesthetic Judgment, its Transcultural Dimension, and Jullien’s Critique of its Limits
- Aesthetic Cognition
- Aesthetic Ideality Versus Ontological Temporality
- Aesthetic Education in Confucius, Xunzi, and Kant
- Light is Space
- II: Aesthetics and Everyday Life – 美学和日常生活
- The Love of Beauty for the Good Life
- Art and Technology
- There Are More Things in (Life) World…
- The Rhythm of Action
- III: Living Aesthetics and Art – 生活美学和艺术
- Thinking and Poetry
- The Standard of Taste in David Hume’s Philosophy
- An Intercultural Interpretation on Heidegger’s Poet
- A Dreamed Form of Being
- Die Fadheit als Lebenskonzept in der chinesischen Kultur
- Information, Communication and Art
- IV: Aesthetics as Philosophy of Arts – 作为艺术哲学的美学
- Techné, Life-world, and Art
- Aesthetic Judgments and Their Cultural Grounding
- From Cézanne’s Doubt to Ai Weiwei’s Subversive Engagement
- Das Bild als Phänomen
- V: Varia and Miscellaneous – 杂文拾翠
- Perpetual Thriving
- Biobibliography
- Biobibliography
