Ritual Technologies and the Confucian Self

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ID21394773
AuthorsKevin J Turner (0000-0002-1483-3682, Hong Kong Baptist University, corresponding author)
Year2025
Publication date2025-12-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSophia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-1527 • E-ISSN: 1873-930X
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11841-025-01102-9
OpenAlexW4417358142
LanguageEN
References cited16

As Confucian philosophy and the philosophy of technology continue to cross-fertilize, a new discourse space is being created. This article outlines the technological horizon of the Confucian world and argues that Confucian ritual is a form of disciplinary technology in the Foucauldian sense. It argues that ritual produces Confucian subjects through disciplinary techniques and performative enactments. It argues that ritual discipline not only shapes the body but also produces and is produced by ritual subjectivities. Finally, it argues that ritual discipline must become self-discipline in a project where “self” and “other” are progressively created through their mutual internalization of the ritual technologies that constitute them as relational entities

Discipline · Horizon · Ontology · Performative utterance · Philosophy of religion · Space (punctuation) · Chinese history and philosophy · Digital Media and Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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