SOBRE EXPRESSÃO INDIVIDUAL E A LIBERDADE POSSÍVEL: A EXPERIÊNCIA DOS “SETE SÁBIOS DO BOSQUE DE BAMBUS自我表現與自由的可行性:竹林七賢的實例

The article interrogates the relationship between "individual expression" and the idea of "possible freedom," arguing that freedom is not a natural given but a social construction mediated by practices and rules. Departing from a comparative reading of the Greco "agonistic spirit"—associated with th...

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Published in:Review of Culture
Main Author: Giorgio Sinedino
Format: Articles
Published: Instituto Cultural de Macau 2016
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Online Access:https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40052/2229
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description The article interrogates the relationship between "individual expression" and the idea of "possible freedom," arguing that freedom is not a natural given but a social construction mediated by practices and rules. Departing from a comparative reading of the Greco "agonistic spirit"—associated with the formation of the individual through educational, political, and military competitions—the author highlights that individuality emerges when formal criteria and adjudicating mechanisms exist that render the contest intelligible and relatively impartial. From this framework, the text shifts to the Chinese experience of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (竹林七賢)," taking the group as a historical-cultural case for reflecting on how the refusal of dominant norms can coexist with alternative forms of normativity. Methodologically, the work operates through historical-conceptual analysis and a contextualized reading of intellectual and performative practices attributed to the literary tradition associated with the group. It concludes that the freedom attributed to the sages is "viable" only because it is anchored in shared grammars of action—reinterpreted rules of the game—that allow individual expression without entirely dissolving the communal horizon.
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spelling SOBRE EXPRESSÃO INDIVIDUAL E A LIBERDADE POSSÍVEL: A EXPERIÊNCIA DOS “SETE SÁBIOS DO BOSQUE DE BAMBUS自我表現與自由的可行性:竹林七賢的實例
The article interrogates the relationship between "individual expression" and the idea of "possible freedom," arguing that freedom is not a natural given but a social construction mediated by practices and rules. Departing from a comparative reading of the Greco "agonistic spirit"—associated with the formation of the individual through educational, political, and military competitions—the author highlights that individuality emerges when formal criteria and adjudicating mechanisms exist that render the contest intelligible and relatively impartial. From this framework, the text shifts to the Chinese experience of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (竹林七賢)," taking the group as a historical-cultural case for reflecting on how the refusal of dominant norms can coexist with alternative forms of normativity. Methodologically, the work operates through historical-conceptual analysis and a contextualized reading of intellectual and performative practices attributed to the literary tradition associated with the group. It concludes that the freedom attributed to the sages is "viable" only because it is anchored in shared grammars of action—reinterpreted rules of the game—that allow individual expression without entirely dissolving the communal horizon.
Instituto Cultural de Macau
Macau
Review of Culture
Articles
2016
Giorgio Sinedino
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Giorgio Sinedino
title SOBRE EXPRESSÃO INDIVIDUAL E A LIBERDADE POSSÍVEL: A EXPERIÊNCIA DOS “SETE SÁBIOS DO BOSQUE DE BAMBUS自我表現與自由的可行性:竹林七賢的實例
title_autocomplete SOBRE EXPRESSÃO INDIVIDUAL E A LIBERDADE POSSÍVEL: A EXPERIÊNCIA DOS “SETE SÁBIOS DO BOSQUE DE BAMBUS自我表現與自由的可行性:竹林七賢的實例
title_full SOBRE EXPRESSÃO INDIVIDUAL E A LIBERDADE POSSÍVEL: A EXPERIÊNCIA DOS “SETE SÁBIOS DO BOSQUE DE BAMBUS自我表現與自由的可行性:竹林七賢的實例
title_fullStr SOBRE EXPRESSÃO INDIVIDUAL E A LIBERDADE POSSÍVEL: A EXPERIÊNCIA DOS “SETE SÁBIOS DO BOSQUE DE BAMBUS自我表現與自由的可行性:竹林七賢的實例
title_full_unstemmed SOBRE EXPRESSÃO INDIVIDUAL E A LIBERDADE POSSÍVEL: A EXPERIÊNCIA DOS “SETE SÁBIOS DO BOSQUE DE BAMBUS自我表現與自由的可行性:竹林七賢的實例
title_short SOBRE EXPRESSÃO INDIVIDUAL E A LIBERDADE POSSÍVEL: A EXPERIÊNCIA DOS “SETE SÁBIOS DO BOSQUE DE BAMBUS自我表現與自由的可行性:竹林七賢的實例
title_sort sobre expressão individual e a liberdade possível: a experiência dos “sete sábios do bosque de bambus自我表現與自由的可行性:竹林七賢的實例
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