Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Self as a Method
Self as a method implies by definition unpacking the self you have to open up the self examine the self as a landscape as rivers or the forest there's lots of darker corners and lots of unsolved questions. So it is to open yourself up so that is as you mentioned the very different from the notion of self care and self assertion and confidence it's quite different. I was talking to young people here in Germany they said one thing this is a very kind of a characterise how they discuss with a friend in social media or even in kind of the physical setting offline. The most important thing is to classify to judge who is correct and who is not correct rather than I open myself up and you
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