On Chinese body thinking
Subtitle: a cultural hermeneutic
By: by Kuang-ming Wu.
Contributors: Wu, Kuang-ming.
Series: Philosophy of history and culture,; v. 12
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Leiden; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 492
Subjects: Philosophy, Chinese; Philosophy, Comparative; Body, Human (Philosophy); East and West
Description: This book uses Western philosophical tradition to make a case for a form of thinking properly associated with ancient China. The book's thesis is that Chinese thinking is concrete rather than formal and abstract, and this is gathered in a variety of ways under the symbol "body thinking". The root of the metaphor is that the human body has a kind of intelligence in its most basic functions. When hungry the body gets food and eats, when tired it sleeps, when amused it laughs.

In free people these things happen instinctively but not automatically.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Continued by the author's On the "logic" of togetherness.