A Fortuitous Search: Between Absolute and Nothingness

Author: Zhang Zhiyang
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: Individual discourse is absent in Chinese writing. Let alone other things, the rhetorical styles presented by Chinese writers over the past century have basically been a form of power-seeking discourse. This kind of writing discourse has so far and will continue to establish a variety of "authorities," both real and false, for us. Individual discourse is the possibility of discourse beyond the possibility of existing discourse. The "narrative" of life always "lives" within individual discourse. The Tracing of an Occasionalist is a philosophical text of individual discourse. It is the author's inner journey of struggling between the absolute and the void, and it is one of the few proofs so far that Chinese scholars have interpreted phenomenology to consider Chinese issues. Zhang Zhiyang's philosophical discourse is purely individualistic, with "walls" and "doors," traumatic memories, and blasphemous festivals. It seeks to retrieve the primacy of individuality in philosophical discourse. You can reject his individual discourse, but his discourse will make it impossible for you to repeat it. You can despise his heavy discourse, but his heaviness will lighten your burden.