Detour and Access - Table of Contents

August 2000
6 x 9, 424 pp.
$42.95/£31.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
1-890951-10-2
ISBN-13:
978-1-890951-10-8

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Detour and Access
Strategies of Meaning in China and Greece
François Jullien
Translated by Sophie Hawkes

	Preface	7

	Reader's Guide	11

I	"He's Chinese," "It's All Chinese to Me"	15

II	Frontal versus Oblique Attack	35

III	Under the Cover of the Image: Insinuated Criticism	55

IV	Quotations as Proxy: The Power to Unsettle	75

V	Insinuating and Avoiding to Say, or How to Read between the Lines	93

VI	The Impossibility of Dissidence (The Ideology of Indirection)	117

VII	Between Emotion and Landscape: The World Is Not an Object of Representation	141

VIII	Beyond the Landscape: The Figurative Meaning Is Not Symbolic	165

IX	From the Master to the Disciple: The Proposition Is Only an Indication	195

X	There Is No Plane of Essences, or Why Detour Is Access	223

XI	Advancing toward Maturation: The Leap of Realization	249

XII	The Great Image Has No Shape, or How to Indicate the Ineffable	275

XIII	"Net" and "Fish," or How to Gain Access to Nature	305

XIV	The Clouds and the Moon	333

XV	The Allusive Distance	355

	Conclusion: Detour or Split?	371

	Notes	381

	Glossary of Chinese Expressions	415

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