The propensity of things : toward a history of efficacy in China / François Jullien ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Zone Books, 1995Distributor: Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press Description: 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0942299949
- 9780942299946
- Propension des choses. English
- 951.001
- DS736.5. J85 1995
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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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