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Don't Mind the Gap: Sinology as an Art of In‐Betweenness
Author(s) -
Standaert Nicolas
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/phc3.12199
Subject(s) - sinology , optimal distinctiveness theory , betweenness centrality , dance , key (lock) , point (geometry) , sociology , aesthetics , epistemology , psychology , philosophy , visual arts , computer science , art , mathematics , china , law , political science , social psychology , geometry , computer security , combinatorics , centrality
(New) Sinology is like a Chinese ritual dance: the key is not the movement, but rather the positions ( shi ), the moments of non‐action ‘in between’, that make rhythm and transformation possible. (New) Sinology itself occupies an in‐between position in the landscape of academic disciplines, though it is not the only one to undertake this dance, as various disciplines engage themselves into a similar quest. Its distinctiveness as intellectual inquiry is to point at intervals, interstices, gaps, cracks, pauses, poses, in‐between moments or zones in culture and human life. In that sense, Sinology does ‘mind’ gaps.