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The propensity of things : toward a history of efficacy in China / François Jullien ; translated by Janet Lloyd.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Zone Books, 1995Distributor: Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press Description: 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0942299949
  • 9780942299946
Uniform titles:
  • Propension des choses. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.001
LOC classification:
  • DS736.5. J85 1995
Contents:
Translator's Note -- Introduction -- Notice to the Reader -- I. Potential Is Born of Disposition in Military Strategy -- II. Position as the Determining Factor in Politics -- III. Conclusion I: A Logic of Manipulation -- IV. The Force of Form, the Effect of Genre -- V. Lifelines across a Landscape -- VI. Categories of Efficacious Dispositions -- VII. Dynamism Is Continuous -- VIII. Conclusion II: The Dragon Motif -- IX. Situation and Tendency in History -- X. Propensity at Work in Reality -- XI. Conclusion III: Conformism and Efficacy -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Expressions.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 951.001 JUL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A249800B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-306).

Translator's Note -- Introduction -- Notice to the Reader -- I. Potential Is Born of Disposition in Military Strategy -- II. Position as the Determining Factor in Politics -- III. Conclusion I: A Logic of Manipulation -- IV. The Force of Form, the Effect of Genre -- V. Lifelines across a Landscape -- VI. Categories of Efficacious Dispositions -- VII. Dynamism Is Continuous -- VIII. Conclusion II: The Dragon Motif -- IX. Situation and Tendency in History -- X. Propensity at Work in Reality -- XI. Conclusion III: Conformism and Efficacy -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Expressions.

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