Flavel, S (2018) '独处中的陪伴：论尼采与庄子的独处、友谊与修养 [Companionships in solitude: solitude, friendship and self-cultivation in Nietzsche and the Zhuangzi].' In: Guying, C, ed. 道家文化研究 [Taoist Cultural Studies], 31. Zhuonghua Book Company, Beijing. ISBN 9787101129984
Abstract
In this work I consider the roles of solitude and friendship in the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and Zhuangzi. I focus on the significance of these two modes of activity in their respective accounts of self-cultivation. In the course of the discussion I make the following claims. Firstly, I show that for neither thinker is the self conceived as discreet or self-contained in any straightforward sense and I therefore suggest that typifying either of them as individualist or self-centred thinkers is problematically reductive. I then show how their accounts of self-cultivation call into question the basic distinction between inner (that is, solitary/individual) and outer (namely, socio-political) life. I conclude by claiming that for both thinkers, our relationships to specific forms of otherness — here exemplified through the figure of the antagonistic friend— provide a crucial context for the task of self-cultivation, particularly to the extent that we can experience such otherness as radically and irreducibly different from us.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter or Section |
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| Note: | This piece of work is a Chinese translation. |
| Divisions: | School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2017 09:52 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2021 09:45 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/9377 |
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