The Question Concerning Technology in China
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An Essay in Cosmotechnics
Yuk Hui
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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?
contents
Preface
Introduction
§1 The Becoming Of Prometheus; §2 Cosmos, Cosmology, And Cosmotechnics; §3 Technological Rupture And Metaphysical Unity; §4 Modernity, Modernisation, And Technicity; §5 What Is The ‘Ontological Turn’ For?; §6 Some Notes On Method
Part 1. In Search of Technological Thought in China
§7 Dao And Cosmos: The Principle Of The Moral; §8 Techne As Violence; §9 Harmony And The Heaven; §10 Dao And Qi: Virtue Contra Freedom; §10.1 Qi And Dao In Daoism: Pao Ding’s Knife; §10.2 Qi And Dao In Confucianism: Restoring The Li; §10.3 Remarks On Stoic And Daoist Cosmotechnics; §11 Qi-Dao As Resistance: The Gu Wen Movement In The Tang Period; §12 The Materialist Theory Of Ch’i In Early Neo-Confucianism; §13 Qi-Dao In Song Yingxing’s Encyclopaedia During The Ming Dynasty; §14 Zhang Xuecheng And The Historicisation Of Dao; §15 The Rupture Of Qi And Dao After The Opium Wars; §16 The Collapse Of Qi-Dao; §16.1 Carsun Chang: Science And The Problem Of Life; §16.2 The Manifesto For A China-Oriented Cultural Development, And Its Critics; §17 Needham’s Question; §17.1 The Organic Mode Of Thought And The Laws Of Nature; §18 Mou Zongsan’s Response; §18.1 Mou Zongsan’s Appropriation Of Kant’s Intellectual Intuition; §18.2 The Self-Negation Of Liangzhi In Mou Zongsan; §19 The Dialectics Of Nature And The End Of Xing Er Shang Xue
Part 2. Modernity and Technological Consciousness
§20 Geometry And Time; §20.1 The Absence Of Geometry In Ancient China; §20.2 Geometrisation And Temporalisation; §20.3 Geometry And Cosmological Specificity; §21 Modernity And Technological Consciousness; §22 The Memory Of Modernity; §23 Nihilism And Modernity; §24 Overcoming Modernity; §25 Anamnesis Of The Postmodern; §26 The Dilemma Of Homecoming; §27 Sinofuturism In The Anthropocene; §28 For Another World History
