{"product_id":"reconsidering-the-life-of-power-1","title":"Reconsidering the Life of Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffers a compelling intercultural perspective on body, art, self, and society.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReconsidering the Life of Power\u003c\/i\u003e examines Chinese perspectives on bodily self-cultivation and explores how these can be resources for working past the ritual scripts of everyday life. In recent decades, European and American thinkers like Michel Foucault and Judith Butler have called attention to the way that people live out ritual scripts in order to be recognized by other people such that they might survive. Philosophers in China, however, have a long history of considering ritual not just in terms of confining power structures but also in terms of \u003ci\u003eempowering\u003c\/i\u003e artistic self-cultivation. Out of this convergence, a response to Butler's \u003ci\u003eThe Psychic Life of Power\u003c\/i\u003e becomes possible, along with fascinating implications for improving real-world experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Garrison looks at art and aesthetics as a way of responding positively to the vicissitudes of everyday life. This means reframing ritual practice in domains like meditation, yoga, tai chi chuan, dance, calisthenics, fashion, and beyond as a kind of work that delves into and unearths society's long-accruing unconscious habits in a way that makes conscious one's everyday speech, comportment, countenance, and presence. The everyday body thus becomes an artwork, speaking in novel ways to the everyday self by revealing an alternative to the programmed ritual scripts through which most of us tend to survive. \u003ci\u003eReconsidering the Life of Power\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling contemporary intercultural perspective on body, art, self, and society that bridges theory and practice by providing an actionable yet deeply philosophical approach to enhancing life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410314187096,"sku":"9781438482118","price":90.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438482118.jpg?v=1777896024","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/reconsidering-the-life-of-power-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}