Ernest Fenollosa's Etymosinology in the Age of Global Communication Export

@article{citeulike:5775621, abstract = {This article puts forward the thesis that in the age of multiculturalism, global communication is rooted in cross-cultural understanding as shown in McLuhan's late communication theory. The American philosopher Ernest Fenollosa went to Japan during the Meiji Restoration when it started in earnest full-scale Westernization. He became fascinated with the poetics of sinography manifested in etymosinology. Etymosinology reveals the depth of the Sinic cultural soul, which is this-worldly, practical, concrete and specific. Sinism (i.e. Confucianism, Daoism and Chan/Zen Buddhism) is a species of relational ontology which is predicated upon the conception of reality as social process. This social process is always already embodied. With the aid of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of embodiment, I critically explore and examine the connection between embodiment and `new media' theory. 10.1177/0263276409103129}, author = {Jung, Hwa Y.}, citeulike-article-id = {5775621}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276409103129}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://tcs.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/26/2-3/249}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0263276409103129}, journal = {Theory Culture Society}, keywords = {communication, communication\_theory, daoism, embodiment, ernest\_fenollosa, global, global\_communication, mcluhan, media\_theory, meiji\_restoration, merleau\_ponty, ontology, phenomenology, zen\_buddhism}, month = {March}, number = {2-3}, pages = {249--273}, posted-at = {2009-09-11 15:31:13}, priority = {2}, title = {Ernest Fenollosa's Etymosinology in the Age of Global Communication}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276409103129}, volume = {26}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5775621 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5775621 N2 - This article puts forward the thesis that in the age of multiculturalism, global communication is rooted in cross-cultural understanding as shown in McLuhan's late communication theory. The American philosopher Ernest Fenollosa went to Japan during the Meiji Restoration when it started in earnest full-scale Westernization. He became fascinated with the poetics of sinography manifested in etymosinology. Etymosinology reveals the depth of the Sinic cultural soul, which is this-worldly, practical, concrete and specific. Sinism (i.e. Confucianism, Daoism and Chan/Zen Buddhism) is a species of relational ontology which is predicated upon the conception of reality as social process. This social process is always already embodied. With the aid of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of embodiment, I critically explore and examine the connection between embodiment and `new media' theory. 10.1177/0263276409103129 IS - 2-3 JF - Theory Culture Society EP - 273 TI - Ernest Fenollosa's Etymosinology in the Age of Global Communication VL - 26 SP - 249 KW - communication KW - communication_theory KW - daoism KW - embodiment KW - ernest_fenollosa KW - global KW - global_communication KW - mcluhan KW - media_theory KW - meiji_restoration KW - merleau_ponty KW - ontology KW - phenomenology KW - zen_buddhism AU - Jung, Hwa PY - 2009/03/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276409103129 ER -