The propensity of things : toward a history of efficacy in China / François Jullien ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
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New York :
Zone Books,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Translator's Note
- Introduction
- Notice to the Reader
- I. Potential Is Born of Disposition in Military Strategy
- II. Position as the Determining Factor in Politics
- III. Conclusion I: A Logic of Manipulation
- IV. The Force of Form, the Effect of Genre
- V. Lifelines across a Landscape
- VI. Categories of Efficacious Dispositions
- VII. Dynamism Is Continuous
- VIII. Conclusion II: The Dragon Motif
- IX. Situation and Tendency in History
- X. Propensity at Work in Reality
- XI. Conclusion III: Conformism and Efficacy
- Notes
- Glossary of Chinese Expressions.