- Indice
- Quaderno monografico – Le frontiere dell´agire tra arte, filosofia e politica / Monographic issue – Fronteiras do agir entre arte, filosofia e política
- Sull’agire e le sue frontiere: riflessioni introduttive sul tema
- Sublime et cosmologie: l’étrange alliance de l’incompréhensible et du compréhensible
- O Matriarcado Minoico (Keftiu) e a arcaica ausência de fronteiras entre arte, filosofia, política e religião
- Nicht-Handeln (wu wei) als politisches Prinzip. Die Kunst des Regierens bei Lao Zi und Konf uzius
- Desassossegos atuais sobre o humanismo: uma contribuição de Martin Heidegger
- “Un pensiero della soglia”. Figure dell’alterità in Simmel, Schütz e Waldenfels e politiche dell’ospitalità
- Begrenzte ästhetische Freiheit als Ermöglicherin künstlerischen Handelns1
- Quando la politica danza. Riflessioni politiche sulla coreografia, la danza e la protesta
- The Precarious Dialectic of Border Regimes: On the Relationship between the Construction of Borders and the Dismantling of Democracy in the Trump Era
- Vom Außen
- Entgrenzte Grenze: die Anomalie des Kinos nach Badiou
- A fronteira entre o olhar e o agir
- Le frontiere tra le arti performative e la filosofia
- MULTI MEDEA EXTRAGÖDIE frei nach Euripides – Theaterproben, ein Bericht
- Laura Scuriatti, Mina Loy’s Critical Modernism, University Press of Florida, 2019
- Judith Siegmund, Zweck und Zweckfreiheit. Zum Funktionswandel der Künste im 21. Jahrhundert
- Evoluzionismo e storicismo nelle scienze sociali: l’intenzionalità dell’azione umana contro il postulato di razionalità
- Per un’ontologia della soglia: note su natura e cultura in Philippe Descola
- Sucedáneos de la interacción humana en la narrativa de Javier Tomeo. Cambios en la (in)comunicación y en las formas de socialización entre El cazador de leones y La mirada de la muñeca hinchable
- L’estetica personalista di Luigi Stefanini e i suoi possibili sviluppi in ambito etico
- Grenze und Schranke: l’origine del soggetto kantiano
- Il conatus tra sforzo di esistere e desiderio di essere: Ricoeur lettore dell’Etica di Spinoza
- Identità digitale (?) – L’eclissi del soggetto e l’ipotesi della post-cultura
- Persona e storia. Una visuale filosofico-politica
Abstract. Non-action (wu wei) as a political principle. The Art of Ruling in Lao Zi and Confucius
To establish non-action as a political principle sounds like a contradiction to Western trained minds, since action is what underpins politics in the first place. In classical Chinese philosophy, however, wu wei (无为) was an ideal of political theory, recommended as a remedy for the urgent problems of the Zhou dynasties to restore social and political order. The principle is not only found in the Dao De Jing, a primarily political treatise attributed to Lao Zi. It also plays a central role in the discussions of the Kong Zi (Confucius) or in legalistic texts (e.g. the Han Fei Zi) of the pre-Qin dynasties.
In my work I will focus on the concept of wu wei in Lao Zi and Confucius. It will be explained to what extent the translation of the term with “non-action” is at least problematic and remains incomprehensible without considering the metaphysical context (such as the concepts of dao 道 or zi ran 自然). Two readings become clear, on the one hand the Confucian version of moral cultivation, on the other hand the more anarchistic version of philosophical Daoism.
Contrary to an equation with Western concepts, e.g. an ultraliberal laissez-faire state, the difference between a Confucian and a Daoist understanding of wu wei is to be developed and an attempt made to connect to contemporary discourses of political theory by means of a psychoanalytical (Lacanian) approach.
