THE QUESTION CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY IN CHINA by Yuk Hui ( 9780995455009 )

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THE QUESTION CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY IN CHINA
AN ESSAY IN COSMOTECHNICS

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Yuk Hui

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URBANOMIC MEDIA LTD

Pub. date:

1 September, 2016

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346

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This book argues for the urgency of imagining a specifically Chinese philosophy of technology capable of responding to Heidegger's landmark critique of modern technology, yet problematizing the affirmation of technics and technologies as anthropologically universal.

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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?

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