Stepping-out-of-Oneself: An Intercultural Dialogue on the Power of Things
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Zhuofei Wang
Abstract
The concept stepping-out-of-oneself concerns a process by which things manifest themselves and make themselves present. This process does not depend on subjective influence but on the power of the thing itself. In this respect, the value of the thing itself and its impact on the sensory experience are brought to the foreground. From an aesthetic point of view, this concept corresponds to a new orientation of contemporary aesthetics of nature, which reflects the programmatic weakening of the subject-centered approach, the estrangement from the substance ontology as well as the phenomenological interest in the power of things.
In this article, I attempt to argue that traditional Daoist thought can also provide a point of contact for the exploration of stepping-out-of-oneself. The focus on my study is on two issues: 1. under what circumstances is stepping-out-of-oneself possible? 2. how is it possible to perceive stepping-out-of-oneself?
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial Preface
- Preface
- Preface
- I. Time and Nature
- Embedded Agency in Early Chinese Philosophy: Time, Place, and Orientation
- Humanized Nature and Reversed Time
- Nature Is Republican – Nature and Freedom in Kant and Schelling
- Indigenous Accounts of Spiraling Time
- II. Nature and Responsibility
- What Do We Owe Future Generations
- From Guilt to Shame: Ecocide Responses East and West
- African Environmental Ethics and Its Ontological Foundations
- Ethics of Motherhood in Chinese Traditions
- III. Nature and Culture
- Japanese Gardens: Time of Letting – Time of Growth
- The Great Wall and Time
- Season and History
- A Japanese Perspective of the Mind-Body-Land Connection
- Stepping-out-of-Oneself: An Intercultural Dialogue on the Power of Things
- Auge und Atem. Ist ein weicher Weg der Modernisierung möglich?
- IV. Time and Interreligious Dialogue
- The Tea Ceremony and Christian Mass: Encounter between the Tea Masters and Jesuit Missionaries
- Spirituality and Society: A Way to Search for the Common Good
- “Resacralizing” the Cosmos in a Post-secular Age
- Bio-Bibliography
- Name Index
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial Preface
- Preface
- Preface
- I. Time and Nature
- Embedded Agency in Early Chinese Philosophy: Time, Place, and Orientation
- Humanized Nature and Reversed Time
- Nature Is Republican – Nature and Freedom in Kant and Schelling
- Indigenous Accounts of Spiraling Time
- II. Nature and Responsibility
- What Do We Owe Future Generations
- From Guilt to Shame: Ecocide Responses East and West
- African Environmental Ethics and Its Ontological Foundations
- Ethics of Motherhood in Chinese Traditions
- III. Nature and Culture
- Japanese Gardens: Time of Letting – Time of Growth
- The Great Wall and Time
- Season and History
- A Japanese Perspective of the Mind-Body-Land Connection
- Stepping-out-of-Oneself: An Intercultural Dialogue on the Power of Things
- Auge und Atem. Ist ein weicher Weg der Modernisierung möglich?
- IV. Time and Interreligious Dialogue
- The Tea Ceremony and Christian Mass: Encounter between the Tea Masters and Jesuit Missionaries
- Spirituality and Society: A Way to Search for the Common Good
- “Resacralizing” the Cosmos in a Post-secular Age
- Bio-Bibliography
- Name Index
