In Praise of Blandness - Table of Contents

March 2004
6 x 9, 169 pp., 8 illus.
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ISBN-10:
1-890951-41-2
ISBN-13:
978-1-890951-41-2

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From Zone Books:
In Praise of Blandness
Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics
François Jullien
Translated by Paula M. Varsano

	Translator's Preface	7

	Prologue	23

I	A Change of Sign	27

II	The Landscape of the Bland	35

III	Blandness-Detachment	41

IV	The Sense of Neutrality	47

V	Blandness in Society	55

VI	Of Character: The Bland and the Plain	59

VII	"Lingering Tone" and "Lingering Taste"	65

VIII	Silent Music	69

IX	The Blandness of Sound	79

X	Blandness's Change of Signs in Literature	85

XI	The Ideology of Blandness	95

XII	Flavor-beyond-the-Flavorful, Landscape-beyond-Landscapes	103

XIII	The "Margin" and the "Center" of Flavor	117

XIV	Blandness or Strength	125

XV	Transcendence Is Natural	139

	Notes	145

	Appendix A: Notes on Major Chinese Figures Mentioned	157

	Appendix B: Glossary of Chinese Expressions	167

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