Journal article
THE CLOUD OF KNOWINGBlurring the Difference with China
Abstract
In this monograph-length article, which inaugurates a multipart symposium titled “Fuzzy Studies,” the significance and virtues of blur are investigated through the whole history of Chinese intellectual tradition. In the Western tradition, the blur of becoming seems to disqualify an object for knowledge; nothing can be an object of knowledge until the blur is resolved and clarity attained. Chinese tradition offers suggestive examples of the …
Authors
Allen B
Journal
Common Knowledge, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 450–532
Publisher
Duke University Press
Publication Date
August 1, 2011
DOI
10.1215/0961754x-1305373
ISSN
0961-754X