Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Aesthetics

Kejun Xia is a philosopher, critic and curator. Xia received his PhD from Wuhan University in China, and completed his post-doctoral work at Universität Freiburg and Université de Strasbourg (following Jean-Luc Nancy). Xia has published more than ten books, including Waiting and Useless Nation: Zhuangzi and Heidegger’s Second Turn (2017) and The Theology of Uselessness: Benjamin, Heidegger and Zhuangzi (2019).

List of Figures – Acknowledgments – Introduction: Infra-White—An Impossible Beginning – Color and White, the Blank Canvas: The Reverse Reconstruction of Non-Dimension – Remnant and White, Color and Blankness, Qi and White – Empty and White, Empty—Empty—Substance—Substance, the Empty Room Filled with Light – The White Layout of the "Woodcutters Fighting for the Path": The Ethics of Remnant Yielding – Jade and White, Snow and White, Light and White – "Black-and-Blankism" and the Silent Transformation of Invisibility – Appendix: The Ink Art of Chen Guangwu: Fasting of the Mind and Interval-Blankness of Chora – Index.