A Random Wanderer's Search (Between the Absolute and Nothingness)

Author: Zhang Zhiyang
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Publish Date: 2003-08-31
Features: Individual voice 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. This writing appeal has so far and will continue to establish a variety of "authorities," both real and fake. Individual voice is the possibility of speaking beyond the mere possibility of existing. The "narrative" of life always "lives" within individual voice. The Tracing of an Occasionalist is a philosophical text of individual voice. It is the author's inner journey of struggling between the absolute and the void, and it serves as evidence for the few Chinese scholars who interpret 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 may reject his individual voice, but his discourse will prevent you from repeating it. You may despise his heavy discourse, but his heaviness will lighten your own.