Romain Graziani
Biographic Data
| ID | 3920025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Romain Graziani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Romain |
| FAMILY NAME | Graziani |
| SIGNATURE | GRAZIANI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2387-5283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Taoïsme: Un Aperçu Des Origines
Voices from the Other Side: Exploring Nonhuman Agents and Their Narrative Function in the Zhuangzi
In the history of Chinese literature, the Zhuangzi authors were the first to grant a voice to diverse forms of life, among them a snake, a tree, a dead man, a divine turtle, and even the wind. What exactly is the interest of incorporating nonhuman protagonists in brief literary fictions? Was there something at stake when trying out this pioneering narrative technique, or was it just for the sake of literary innovation and entertainment? Through a…
Fiction and Philosophy in the Zhuangzi: An Introduction to Early Chinese Taoist Thought
Brimming with mythical imagination, poetic sallies, and often ferociously witty remarks, the Zhuangzi is one of China’s greatest literary and philosophical masterpieces. Yet the complexities of this classical text can make it a challenging read. This English translation leads you confidently through the comic scenes and virtuoso writing style, introducing all the little stories Zhuangzi invented and unpicking its philosophical insights through cl…
Legal Mutilation and Moral Exclusion: Disputations on Integrity and Deformity in Early China
This article examines attitudes evidenced in pre-imperial and Han sources (ritual compendia, historical chronicles, legal codes, administrative texts, and philosophical literature) towards visually repulsive individuals, in particular those who have undergone a penal mutilation. We start from the perception of bodily harm in the light of legal and ritual norms and the moral imperative of physical integrity, and then set out to analyze the concret…
L'Usage du vide: Essai sur l’intelligence de l’action, de l’Europe à la Chine
Il semble que les états les plus désirables, à l’image du sommeil, ne puissent survenir qu’à condition de n’être pas recherchés, le simple fait de les convoiter pouvant suffire à les mettre en déroute. Or ce paradoxe de l’action volontaire, mal élucidé et jamais résolu dans la philosophie occidentale, est au centre de la pensée taoïste. L’auteur explore dans cette double lumière, à partir de diverses sphères d’expérience, de la pratique d’un spor…
Ficciones filosóficas del Zhuangzi
Monarch and Minister: The Problematic Partnership in the Building of Absolute Monarchy in the Han Feizi 韓非子
Optimal States and Self-Defeating Plans: The Problem of Intentionality in Early Chinese Self-Cultivation
Whereas Western moral philosophy has mainly accounted for recurrent failed or irrational actions through the concept of weakness of will, many early Chinese texts on self-cultivation, notably the Zhuangzi, stand for a philosophical position that explains our frustrations and failures as an “excess of the will.” Leaving aside external factors such as accidents or mistakes, this essay explores the sources of thwarted plans and frustrated expectatio…
When Princes Awake in Kitchens: Zhuangzi’s Rewriting of a Culinary Myth
The brief encounter between the butcher and the prince recounted in the Zhuangzi has been blessed by a long exegetical tradition in China and the West and has thus been firmly implanted in the Chinese imaginative world.1 Oddly enough, however, and indeed in contrast to the lesson of the ox that it portrays, the story has yet to be dissected according to its inherent structure. This structure might be said to center around four essential themes: t…
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When Princes Awake in Kitchens: Zhuangzi’s Rewriting of a Culinary Myth
The brief encounter between the butcher and the prince recounted in the Zhuangzi has been blessed by a long exegetical tradition in China and the West and has thus been firmly implanted in the Chinese imaginative world.1 Oddly enough, however, and indeed in contrast to the lesson of the ox that it portrays, the story has yet to be dissected according to its inherent structure. This structure might be said to center around four essential themes: t…
Optimal States and Self-Defeating Plans: The Problem of Intentionality in Early Chinese Self-Cultivation
Whereas Western moral philosophy has mainly accounted for recurrent failed or irrational actions through the concept of weakness of will, many early Chinese texts on self-cultivation, notably the Zhuangzi, stand for a philosophical position that explains our frustrations and failures as an “excess of the will.” Leaving aside external factors such as accidents or mistakes, this essay explores the sources of thwarted plans and frustrated expectatio…
Monarch and Minister: The Problematic Partnership in the Building of Absolute Monarchy in the Han Feizi 韓非子
Ficciones filosóficas del Zhuangzi
L'Usage du vide: Essai sur l’intelligence de l’action, de l’Europe à la Chine
Il semble que les états les plus désirables, à l’image du sommeil, ne puissent survenir qu’à condition de n’être pas recherchés, le simple fait de les convoiter pouvant suffire à les mettre en déroute. Or ce paradoxe de l’action volontaire, mal élucidé et jamais résolu dans la philosophie occidentale, est au centre de la pensée taoïste. L’auteur explore dans cette double lumière, à partir de diverses sphères d’expérience, de la pratique d’un spor…
Legal Mutilation and Moral Exclusion: Disputations on Integrity and Deformity in Early China
This article examines attitudes evidenced in pre-imperial and Han sources (ritual compendia, historical chronicles, legal codes, administrative texts, and philosophical literature) towards visually repulsive individuals, in particular those who have undergone a penal mutilation. We start from the perception of bodily harm in the light of legal and ritual norms and the moral imperative of physical integrity, and then set out to analyze the concret…
Fiction and Philosophy in the Zhuangzi: An Introduction to Early Chinese Taoist Thought
Brimming with mythical imagination, poetic sallies, and often ferociously witty remarks, the Zhuangzi is one of China’s greatest literary and philosophical masterpieces. Yet the complexities of this classical text can make it a challenging read. This English translation leads you confidently through the comic scenes and virtuoso writing style, introducing all the little stories Zhuangzi invented and unpicking its philosophical insights through cl…
Voices from the Other Side: Exploring Nonhuman Agents and Their Narrative Function in the Zhuangzi
In the history of Chinese literature, the Zhuangzi authors were the first to grant a voice to diverse forms of life, among them a snake, a tree, a dead man, a divine turtle, and even the wind. What exactly is the interest of incorporating nonhuman protagonists in brief literary fictions? Was there something at stake when trying out this pioneering narrative technique, or was it just for the sake of literary innovation and entertainment? Through a…
Taoïsme: Un Aperçu Des Origines
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