Vital nourishment
Subtitle: departing from happiness
By: François Jullien ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Publisher: Zone Books; Distributed by the MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Brooklyn; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781890951801
Subjects: Life; Meaning (Philosophy); Philosophy, Chinese
Work titles: Nourrir sa vie.
Description: "The philosophical tradition in the West has always subjected life to conceptual divisions and questions about meaning, Although this process has given rise to a rich history of inquiry, it proceeds too fast, contends Francois Jullien. In its anxiety about meaning, Western thinkers since Plato have forgotten simply to experience life in vital Nourishment, Jullien slows down and begins to think about life from a point outside of Western inquiry, using the third- and fourth-century B.C.E. Chinese thinker Zhuanghi as a foil in this installment of his continuing project of plumbing the philosophical divide between Eastern and Western thought."--Jacket.
Notes: Title from jacket

Translated from the French

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171)