| Abstract |
This study aims to explore the thoughts implied in calligraphy copying. Calligraphy copying is based on the interaction to learn from others. In current trend upon creativity, traditional careful calligraphy copying means to follow others and limit personal creativity. It is conservative and less original. However, according to ancient books, copying inherits classics and accomplishes personal renovation in the heritance to result in the paradox of creativity. Thus, based on the tension between these two perspectives of creativity, through the cultivation of thoughts of Zhuangzi, this study probes into the antagonistic relationship between others (rubbing books) of copying and subjects of copying, the process to become others and how they become prior sociality of subjects to interact with contemporary academic resources of ethics of others, such as the Theory of Recognition of Axel Honneth, the scholar of Frankfort School, the Theory of the Aesthetics of Christoph Menke, in order to validate the significance of calligraphy copying in contemporary academic circle. |
