1. Story-Thinking: Cultural Meditations
- Author
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Kuang-ming Wu and Kuang-ming Wu
- Subjects
- East and West, Thought and thinking, Life, Storytelling--Philosophy
- Abstract
Story-thinking is direct actuality-thinking; actuality is active and alive, never set or formal but free and reasonable. Actuality is things as they are alive, actively actualizing themselves, birthing unceasing. They sound forth to resound, vibrate to inter-vibrate, tell to retell it, to reveal-R to express-E it. This “R to E” is not logically inferential, free of inferential error. Such R-to-E process dialogically transmits across an instant as “story-thinking.” Story-thinking primordially hears of actuality to story-express it. Thus, actuality sounds itself—tells its story—to a sensitive hearer who retells the story-actual in her own resonance, and her vibration is “storytelling.” Actuality tells and is heard, and storytelling comes about. Story-thinking begins at storytelling to continue storytelling, this way.
- Published
- 2011