Ng, Julia. 2022. 无人之径：本雅明、无为与资本主义批判 [No One's Way: Benjamin, Wu Wei, and the Critique of Capitalism]. (Translated by Shu Xiang, He Yuan). Journal of Guangzhou University (Social Science Edition), 2022(4), pp. 146-160. ISSN 1000-5099 [Article]

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Beginning with a discussion of adaptations of François Jullien's understanding of ″potential born of disposition″ and ″silent transformation″ in two recent analyses of capitalist contemporaneity (by Bennett and Dufourmantelle), this essay argues that ″China″ as a philosophical tool bears within it a rich and underanalyzed genealogy that is poised to reframe critical theory in a new geopolitical context. The remainder of the essay then unpacks the intellectual history and textual philology of one earlier and pivotal moment of critical theory's collision with ″China″: Walter Benjamin's transformation of ″non-action，″ or Wu Wei, into a complex for thinking through possibilities of not-being in debt to Being．

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Walter Benjamin; Wu Wei; Critical Theory; China
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Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature > Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought
Dates:	Date Event 11 July 2022 Published
Item ID:	32044
Date Deposited:	22 Jul 2022 09:55
Last Modified:	22 Jul 2022 09:55
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32044

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