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"A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics. Heidegger's critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted in the East. Yet the conception that there is only one-originally Greek-type of technics has been an obstacle to any original critical thinking of technology in modern Chinese thought. Yuk Hui argues for the urgency of imagining a specifically Chinese philosophy of technology capable of responding to Heidegger's challenge, while problematizing the affirmation of technics and technologies as anthropologically universal. This investigation of the historical-metaphysical question of technology, drawing on Lyotard, Simondon, and Stiegler, and introducing a history of modern Eastern philosophical thinking largely unknown to Western readers, including philosophers such as Feng Youlan, Mou Zongsan, and Keiji Nishitani, sheds new light on the obscurity of the question of technology in China. Why was technics never thematized in Chinese thought? Why has time never been a real question for Chinese philosophy? How was the traditional concept of Qi transformed in its relation to Dao as China welcomed technological modernity and westernization? In The Question Concerning Technology in China, a systematic historical survey of the major concepts of traditional Chinese thinking is followed by a startlingly original investigation of these questions, in order to ask how Chinese thought might today contribute to a renewed, cosmotechnical questioning of globalized technics. Review: In this remarkable book, Yuk Hui draws on the major thinkers of both the West and the East to elaborate an original reflection on the nature of technology. He has enlarged the philosophical horizon for the Anth". -- Informació facilitada per l'editor Contents 10 Preface 12 Timeline of Thinkers, East and West, Discussed in the Book 16 INTRODUCTION 20 §1 The Becoming of Prometheus 26 §2 Cosmos, Cosmology, and Cosmotechnics 37 §3 Technological Rupture and Metaphysical Unity 52 §4 Modernity, Modernisation, and Technicity 58 §5 What Is the 'Ontological Turn' For? 64 §6 Some Notes on Method 72 PART 1: IN SEARCH OF TECHNOLOGICAL THOUGHT IN CHINA 78 §7 Dao and Cosmos: The Principle of the Moral 80 §8 Techne as Violence 88 §9 Harmony and the Heaven 99 §10 Dao and Qi: Virtue Contra Freedom 108 §10.1 Qi and Dao in Daoism: Pao Ding's Knife 120 §10.2 Qi and Dao in Confucianism: Restoring the Li 127 §10.3 Remarks on Stoic and Daoist Cosmotechnics 135 §11 Qi-Dao as Resistance: The Gu Wen Movement in the Tang Period 148 §12 The Materialist Theory of Ch'i in Early Neo-Confucianism 153 §13 Qi-Dao in Song Yingxing's Encyclopaedia During the Ming Dynasty 157 §14 Zhang Xuecheng and the Historicisation of Dao 166 §15 The Rupture of Qi and Dao after the Opium Wars 170 §16 The Collapse of Qi-Dao 177 §16.1 Carsun Chang: Science and the Problem of Life 178 §16.2 The Manifesto for a China-Oriented Cultural Development, and Its Critics 181 §17 Needham's Question 184 §17.1 The Organic Mode of Thought and the Laws of Nature 187 §18 Mou Zongsan's Response 192 §18.1 Mou Zongsan's Appropriation of Kant's Intellectual Intuition 192 §18.2 The Self-Negation of Liangzhi in Mou Zongsan 203 §19 The Dialectics of Nature and the End of Xing Er Shang Xue 209 PART 2: MODERNITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS 218 §20 Geometry and Time 220 §20.1 The Absence of Geometry in Ancient China 222 §20.2 Geometrisation and Temporalisation 228 §20.3 Geometry and Cosmological Specificity 235 §21 Modernity and Technological Consciousness 242 §22 The Memory of Modernity 250 §23 Nihilism and Modernity 260 §24 Overcoming Modernity 268 §25 Anamnesis of the Postmodern 288 §26 The Dilemma of Homecoming 301 §27 Sinofuturism in the Anthropocene 309 §28 For Another World History 320 Index of Names 332 Index of Subjects 338 "A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics. Heidegger's critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted in the East. Yet the conception that there is only one-originally Greek-type of technics has been an obstacle to any original critical thinking of technology in modern Chinese thought. Yuk Hui argues for the urgency of imagining a specifically Chinese philosophy of technology capable of responding to Heidegger's challenge, while problematizing the affirmation of technics and technologies as anthropologically universal. This investigation of the historical-metaphysical question of technology, drawing on Lyotard, Simondon, and Stiegler, and introducing a history of modern Eastern philosophical thinking largely unknown to Western readers, including philosophers such as Feng Youlan, Mou Zongsan, and Keiji Nishitani, sheds new light on the obscurity of the question of technology in China. Why was technics never thematized in Chinese thought? Why has time never been a real question for Chinese philosophy? How was the traditional concept of Qi transformed in its relation to Dao as China welcomed technological modernity and westernization? In The Question Concerning Technology in China, a systematic historical survey of the major concepts of traditional Chinese thinking is followed by a startlingly original investigation of these questions, in order to ask how Chinese thought might today contribute to a renewed, cosmotechnical questioning of globalized technics. Review: In this remarkable book, Yuk Hui draws on the major thinkers of both the West and the East to elaborate an original reflection on the nature of technology. He has enlarged the philosophical horizon for the Anth". -- Informació facilitada per l'editor "A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics. Heidegger's critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted in the East. Yet the conception that there is only one-originally Greek-type of technics has been an obstacle to any original critical thinking of technology in modern Chinese thought. Yuk Hui argues for the urgency of imagining a specifically Chinese philosophy of technology capable of responding to Heidegger's challenge, while problematizing the affirmation of technics and technologies as anthropologically universal. This investigation of the historical-metaphysical question of technology, drawing on Lyotard, Simondon, and Stiegler, and introducing a history of modern Eastern philosophical thinking largely unknown to Western readers, including philosophers such as Feng Youlan, Mou Zongsan, and Keiji Nishitani, sheds new light on the obscurity of the question of technology in China. Why was technics never thematized in Chinese thought? Why has time never been a real question for Chinese philosophy? How was the traditional concept of Qi transformed in its relation to Dao as China welcomed technological modernity and westernization? In The Question Concerning Technology in China, a systematic historical survey of the major concepts of traditional Chinese thinking is followed by a startlingly original investigation of these questions, in order to ask how Chinese thought might today contribute to a renewed, cosmotechnical questioning of globalized technics. Review: In this remarkable book, Yuk Hui draws on the major thinkers of both the West and the East to elaborate an original reflection on the nature of technology. He has enlarged the philosophical horizon for the Anth". -- from the publisher Heidegger's Landmark Critique Of Modern Technology And Its Relation To Metaphysics Has Been Widely Accepted In The East. Yet The Conception That There Is Only One-originally Greek-type Of Techne Has Been An Obstacle To Any Original Critical Thinking Of Technology In Modern Chinese Thought. This Book Argues For The Urgency Of Imagining A Specifically Chinese Philosophy Of Technology Capable Of Responding To Heidegger's Conception And Problematizing The Affirmation Of Technics And Technologies As Anthropologically Universal. Yuk Hui's Systematic Historical Survey Of Chinese Thought In Comparison To The Antique Philosophy In Europe Explains Why There Is No Systematic Thinking Of Technics In Chinese Thought. His Subsequent Investigation Of The Historical-metaphysical Questions Of Modern Technology, Drawing On Lyotard, Simondon, And Stiegler, Then Sheds New Light On The Obscurity Of The Question Of Technology In China. Why Has Time Never Been A Real Question For Chinese Philosophy, How Has The Category Of Qi Transformed In Its Relation To Dao In Chinese Metaphysical Discourse, And How Might Chinese Thought Contribute To A Renewed Questioning Of Globalized Technics? --publisher Description. Yuk Hui. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Primarily In English With Some Chinese.