Феномен «телесного знания» в философии и культуре Китая

Вопросы философии. 2019. № 8. С. 59–71.

Maliavin V.

Unlike Western philosophy, the philosophical tradition of China and the whole
Eastern Asia is founded on the premise of organic unity of spirit and nature and

the corresponding aspects of human experience. This article explores the condi-
tions and nature of such unity, often named the body knowledge. The author

claims that the metaphysics of the body knowledge is based on the concept
of self-concealment or self-abandonment which amount to the eternal “return

to the origin” while its epistemology equates consciousness to the universal cor-
respondence and above all the presence of spirit in the immanence of life.

Its main and totally practical value is the capacity to anticipate the course
of events and support the “unfolding” of things, let everything be. It affirms

that things are to the extent they are not and the spirit coincides with pure ma-
teriality in the living immanence. This made the body knowledge the basis of

politics and strategical thinking in the Far Eastern civilization. The body

knowledge is of particular importance in the contemporary informational civili-
zation which gives priority to the pragmatics of communication over objective

truths and the free actualizations of synergy over formal collectivism. Above all,
it helps to restore the existential meaning of learning.

Keywords: synergy, синергия, политика тела, проприоцепция, body knowledge, proprioception, body of togetherness, body of learning, politics of the body, телесное знание, тело совместности, тело учения