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Spalletta, Paul Henry. "Developing Conscience and Empathy from Being and Nothingness." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1334379303.
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Kirkpatrick, Kate. "Between being and nothingness : sin in Jean-Paul Sartre." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:727cbb39-8929-48c0-8952-2751edeb23bf.
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This thesis argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's early philosophy retained a recognizable inheritance from the Christian doctrine of original sin. On the standard reading, Sartre's most fundamental and attractive idea - the idea that brought him his reputation as 'the philosopher of his generation' - is freedom. But, as Sarah Richmond notes, Sartre's interest in phenomenology 'co-existed with and was an instrument for his wish to demonstrate the existence of human freedom, and his sense that the way to do this was by establishing an essential connection of consciousness with nothingness.' Taking Being and Nothingness as its primary exegetical focus, this thesis argues that the early, anti-humanist Sartre retained a recognizable descendant of the Christian doctrine of original sin in his concept of le néant. Previous scholars have noted the resemblance between Sartre's and Augustine's ontology: to name but one shared theme, both thinkers describe the human as the being through which nothingness enters the world. But no in-depth examination of this 'resemblance' has been made. Using historical, exegetical, and conceptual methods, my research demonstrates that Sartre's intellectual formation prior to his discovery of phenomenology included theological elements which are often overlooked by Sartre scholars - especially in the English-speaking philosophical community, where his phenomenological influences receive greater attention. The thesis therefore (i) outlines the French Augustinianisms by which, I argue, Sartre's account of the human as 'between being and nothingness' was informed; in order to (ii) undertake a close reading of Being and Nothingness, which shows (a) that the psychological, epistemological, and ethical consequences of Sartre's le néant closely resemble the consequences of its theological predecessor and (b) that his account of freedom can be read as an anti-theodicy; and finally (iii) to argue constructively that Sartre is a useful resource for contemporary hamartiology. In doing so it contributes to both Sartre scholarship and the theological sub-discipline of modern doctrine.
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Kooy, Brian Keith. "Between Being and Nothingness: The Metaphysical Foundations Underlying Augustine's Solution to the Problem of Evil." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11302007-134955/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.Title from file title page. Timothy M. Renick, committee chair; Tim O'Keefe, Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., committee members. Electronic text (110 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Jan. 18, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-110).
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Moura, Alex de Campos. "Entre o Ser e o Nada: a dissolução ontológica na filosofia de Merleau-Ponty." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-07102011-085043/.
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Nossa pesquisa pretende trabalhar a maneira pela qual a filosofia de Merleau-Ponty, especialmente no que se convencionou chamar período intermediário e período final de sua obra, opera uma espécie de dissolução das dicotomias clássicas, sobretudo no que se refere à oposição entre sujeito e objeto, propondo uma reformulação ontológica que recusa a cisão entre o Ser e o Nada, buscando afirmar e explicitar a reversibilidade originária entre eles.Our research intends to show the way Merleau-Ponty\'s philosophy, especially during what is usually called its intermediary period and its last period, realizes a dissolution of classical dicotomies, over all the one that concerns the oposition between subject and object, proposing an ontological reformulation that refuses the cleavage between Being and Nothingness, intending to affirm the original reversibility betwwen them.
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Moura, Alex de Campos. "A relação entre liberdade e situação em Merleau-Ponty, sob uma perspectiva ontológica." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-04012008-122217/.
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Nossa pesquisa pretende mostrar a relação entre liberdade e situação presente na primeira fase da filosofia de Merleau-Ponty, especialmente na Fenomenologia da Percepção. Nosso objetivo é indicar que ela se apoia em uma dimensão ontológica, cuja característica principal é a recusa da tradicional separação entre ser e nada, e cujo fundamento encontra-se na temporalidade.Our research intends to show the relation between freedon and situation present at the begining of Merleau-Ponty\'s philosophy, especially at Phénoménologie de la Perception. Our objective is to indicate that it is suported by an ontoligical dimension, whose main caracteristic is the refuse of the traditional separation between \"being\" and \"nothingness\", and whose fundament is found at the temporality.
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Pilibavičiutė-Bachmetjeva, Lina. "Sekreto fenomenas." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2014. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2014~D_20140703_155440-00891.
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Ką, kodėl ir kaip slepia žmogus? Kas yra paslaptis? Kas slepiasi už pačios paslapties? Ar gali būti, kad žmoguje esantys slėpiniai ir pačio žmogaus paslaptys yra Būties paslapties kartotė? Ar galima analizuojant žmogaus paslaptis ką nors sužinoti apie Būtį? Būties stoka įgalina mus laužyti taisykles, dekonstruoti vaidmenis, nusižengti sociumo įstatymams. Būties trokšdami išbandome visus kelius, o bandymų destruktyvią informaciją užkasame kaip vaikiškus sekretus. Žmogus slepia Nerimą. Nerimas slepia Niekį. O “gryna Būtis ir grynas Niekis yra tas pats.”.What, why and how does a man hide? What is a secret? What hides behind the secret itself? Can it be that the secrets within a human being and the secrets of a man are the repetition of the secret of Being? Is it possible to find out anything about Being by analyzing the secrets of man? The lack of Being empowers us to break the rules, to deconstruct the roles, to violate the laws of the social. While wishing for Being we try out all the ways, and we cover up the destructive information of the attempts as childish secrets. A man hides Anxiety. Anxiety hides Nothingness. “Pure Being and pure Nothing are the same.”.
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Andreev, Konstantin. "To know the self as a matrix of maybe : An account of the specialness of self-knowledge." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-413530.
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The essay is an attempt to make sense of the apparently special relation between self-knowledge and agency. To achieve that goal, the essay translates the account of what it is like to be a human self offered by Sartre into the language of evolutionary psychology. In L’être et le néant, Sartre describes the phenomenology of the self as a series of inescapable choices in a contingent set of circumstances. This essay identifies Sartre’s description with what Baumeister, Maranges and Sjåstad call a matrix of maybe: the mechanism of nonfactual pragmatic prospection found in humans. Consequently, it defines the self as a matrix of maybe operating within a contingency matrix and reflecting on its own operation. Self-knowledge, the essay concludes, seems special because we routinely and erroneously ascribe to the self features of its contingency matrix. Most of our true first-person claims should not be read as I PREDICATE. Instead, they can be explicated as I have to act in a world where C PREDICATE, where C is the relevant part of the contingency matrix.
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Mortyakova, Julia Vladimirovna. "Existential Piano Teacher: The Application of Jean-Paul Sartre's Philosophy to Piano Instruction In a Higher Educational Setting." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/230.
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This essay uses existential ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre to provide a philosophy of college piano performance teaching which includes awareness of freedom, abandonment and responsibility as a prerequisite for student-teacher interaction. To set the stage for the interaction the study uses Sartre's philosophy, illustrated with concrete examples from the world of piano teaching and performing, to describe what it means to be human. The author applies Sartre's writings about literature to support the idea of an engaged performance, relating it to existential psychoanalysis, making the performer and audience member realize freedom through choice, while addressing ideas of abandonment and performance anxiety. Sartre's philosophy is used to identify the roles both teachers and students play in the college environment as people and as performers. The study with the help of existentialism, describes the interaction between the different elements: teacher, student, performer, and human being, and provides a better understanding of the complexity of the pupil/professor relationship in the college piano performance program.
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Lin, Ya Hui, and 林雅慧. "From nothingness to being." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99563003481709030019.
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Sen, Chiou Yih, and 邱奕森. "The Conception of Freedom in Sartre''s Being and Nothingness." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27873381991496096073.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
哲學研究所
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This thesis studies "whether the conception of ''freedom'' in Sartre''s Being and Nothingness can provide a person his own subjectivity in the lashes of values of plural cultures." Sartre confronted many insolvable ethical questions when he went through the world war Ⅱ. These questions made Sartre reconsider the relations between man and various values, and he tried to solve these questions. Sartre affirmed that man could use his conception of freedom to create his subjectivity and meaning of life in the lashes of values of plural cultures. However, this thesis tries to show that Sartre''s conception of freedom results in several difficulties: First, Sartre''s conception of freedom is restricted, not unlimited. Second, it is not primary. Third, it results in the difficulties of ethical subjectivism. They show that a man cannot create his subjectivity just by his conception of freedom. But they give rise to an alternative thinking. Since Sartre''s ontology is the foundation of his conception of freedom, and if Sartre''s conception of freedom results in the difficulties then it is reasonable to doubt that " whether Sartre''s ontology is partial to make his freedom problematic." This thesis discusses this question in the conclusion.
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Chai, David. "Nothingness, Being, and Dao: Ontology and Cosmology in the Zhuangzi." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/65462.
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The following dissertation is a philosophical exploration of the cosmology of the Zhuangzi, arguing it is meontological due to the prominence afforded the Chinese word wu 無, rendered as both nothingness and nonbeing. It puts forth the argument that the Zhuangzi’s cosmology creates a relationship whereby nonbeing and being are intertwined under the purview of Dao 道. As a result, the text’s axiology is unique in that it states cosmological freedom is attainable via uniting with primal nothingness. Chapter one seeks to disprove the notion that nonbeing cannot be anything but a transcendental other by arguing that Dao is a negatively creative source that simultaneously gives birth to nonbeing and being, making it impossible for nonbeing to be nihilistic or seen as an absolute void. Chapter two delves into the manifestation of things and how the sage, as an epitome of the naturalness of Dao, follows the becoming and returning of things to the One, darkening himself in nothingness in order to cultivate his life. Chapter three poses the question of whether or not the ontological movement of things is temporal and how temporality can even be possible considering the meontological nature of the universe. The next two chapters focus on the arts of useful uselessness and forgetting, the two principal means by which the sage achieves harmony with the oneness of things. Chapter six concludes by arguing that freedom attained by perfecting the arts of uselessness and forgetfulness is not rooted in ethical virtue but is the pinnacle of one’s cosmological relationship with Dao and is embodied in the act of carefree wandering. Zhuangzi’s cosmology is thus rooted in the life force of nothingness and doing away with ontic distinctions so as to return to natural equanimity and stillness of spirit.
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Wei, Liang-Cheng, and 魏良成. "Being and Nothingness–A Study of Science Fiction Wuxia Comics Creation." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4yrcf9.
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博士國立臺灣師範大學
美術學系
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“Wuxia” as a fantastic culture exclusively exists in the Chinese world. Reality and imagination for thousands of years have interwoven into a Wuxia faith which seems to exist as “being” but actually as “nothingness.” Based on such characteristic of Wuxia, the research aims to explore and analyze the Wuxia texts from the two aspects, the internal ideological concept of “Xia” and the external visual performance of “Wu.” In terms of the internal ideological concept: the research adopts the philosophical viewpoint of existentialism to discuss and analyze the various layers of “Xia” represented in the significance of humanity in the “real” world; it also analyzes the narrative structure of the Wuxia texts, forms of narration, themes of the texts and the persuasive methods. In the aspect of the external visual performance: the research analyzes the types of the Wuxia comics to explore the skills and methods of presenting images, compositions of pictures and styles. By consulting the publications related to the Wuxia comics, absorbing the professional academic viewpoints and interviewing with the scholars of the martial arts and the martial artists, the research intends to examine the relevant arguments of the presentation of martial arts. Through the three parts of study and analysis, it probes into the significance of the external visual performance of the Wuxia texts. Finally, the research discusses the relations between Wuxia and fiction and the imaginations about nothingness and virtual characteristic. It uses the three system theories of physics and the aspect of science fiction to analyze the principles and creativity of reality and imagination in “Martial Art.” By using the scientific theory as the basis for extending the creative imagination of martial arts, the research concludes the styles of “Wuxia science fiction” in the Chinese culture.
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Blakeburn, Jason Lowry. "Nothing matters: philosophical and theological varieties of nothingness." Thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/16327.
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I trace the concept of nothingness in twentieth century philosophical theology from the work Paull Tillich through that of Martin Heidegger and Keiji Nishitani toward Robert Neville and Ray L. Hart all of whom have taken up the challenge of nothingness. As a specific metaphysical concept or category, these philosophers and theologians would undoubtedly disagree on a specific definition of nothingness; however, I argue they would agree on the vague function of nothingness, which is a relief or contrast to being. Tied up with existence contra nothingness are the possibilities of existence or meontic nothingness. At stake in the encounter with or exposure to nothingness is the ability to refund or redeem one’s ownmost potential and possibilities. How one responds to the specter of nothingness makes nothing matter (or not) in the way one turns from nothingness back to existence. In other words, the stakes are not merely the metaphysical (non)status of nothingness, but the desire to find meaning and value in human, finite existence in the face of radical contingency and the specter of nihilism.
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Lin, Stacey Li-min, and 林黎敏. "Nothingness and Being of Age in Jane Austen's Persuasion: A Sartrean Reading." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48779972781301887268.
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碩士中國文化大學
英國語文學研究所
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Jane Austen's Persuasion is a novel vividly depicting a woman's lives. The heroine consists of all the versatile personalities of Austen's previous works. As the posthumous and last novel, it achieves Austen's maturity of writing. Therefore, the thesis puts emphasis on deciphering the heroine's development from the age of nineteen to the age of twenty-seven. As far as I am concerned, age is the factor to affect the heroine's personalities. Besides, Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness is applied to prove the heroine's conditions of being at different age. In my thesis, there are five sections to give a detailed account of the relationship between Persuasion, the heroine and the author. Firstly, my introduction briefly articulates my motivation to write this thesis and introduces that age is a main factor to influence Austen's heroine in Persuasion. Besides, the concept of "Being and Nothingness" originates from Jean-Paul Sartre is discussed and applied to analyze the turning process of the heroine in Persuasion. In chapter two, the unconscious being of the heroine is discussed to reflect the connection of woman's age and body. The heroine's being is an object of desire when she is nineteen. Anne is unconscious of her situation, only knowing that she is still young and has other choices. This is a concept based on her appearance of body. Thus, Anne's being is what Sartre called “being-in-itself.” Chapter three focuses on the heroine's self-awakening. The heroine becomes aware of her situation when she is twenty-seven. She is not confident of her being of body because she is not young comparing with another self in nineteen. Therefore, she turns to develop her inside, which means that she changes from the objective being to transcendent one, namely the observing ego. That is what Sartre called “being-for-itself.” According to Sartre, it literally means no-thing, not to be seen as an object. The conflict between being-in-itself and being-for-itself is my concern in chapter four. There is a controlling power over being-in-itself and being-for-itself. When the heroine Anne is in the condition of being-in-itself, her body is the desiring object of Frederick. Frederick is the subject trying to control Anne; thus, Frederick plays as a sadist. Anne plays as a masochist because she needs a man to prove her attraction. Anne gets her identity from the being of her body. On the contrary, when Anne is twenty-seven, she tries to get her identity through controlling others. Frederick then becomes the desiring object. They switch their condition of being because age affects men and women in different way. Finally, my conclusion declares that though in Austen's Persuasion, age determines the change of Anne Elliot. However, if Anne had understood that age is not something to affect her being and had developed her self-identity at the age of nineteen, the influence of age would have been nothing.
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Lin, Chih-kuo, and 林治國. "On Pain ── Using Sartre’s Body Ontology in Being and Nothingness as a Clue." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98257946250297096619.
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碩士南華大學
生死學研究所
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The aim of the thesis is to discourse on the most general lived experience ─ pain, through using Sartre’s body ontology in Being and Nothingness as a clue and studying relevant phenomenological psychology literature. Say further, there are three parts of contents of the thesis as follows： 1. In order to understand and elucidate the main concepts of phenomenological psychology, the writer has made a review on phenomenology movement history as well as the relevant phenomenological psychology literature. In this part, the thesis shows phenomenological psychology’s brief development history, main concepts and implementing methods of phenomenological psychology. 2. In order to understand Sartre’s concepts of body ontology and to elucidate his ontological delineation about human lived pain experience, the writer has also studied Sartre’s phenomenological essay on ontology Being and Nothingness and other relevant commentary literature. Namely, in this part, the thesis discusses：(1)the notions of being-for-itself, being-in-itself, being-for-the-other (2)the description of three body-ontological dimensions（the body as being-for-itself, the body as being-for-the-other, my body as body-known-by-the-other）(3)Sartre’s analysis of pain and illness in which he identifies four distinct levels of constitution of meaning：lived pain, suffered illness, disease, and the disease state. 3. Combining above-mentioned theoretical understanding with the anecdotes of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyitch as well as a phenomenological example of the tennis player’s chest-pain, finally, the thesis phenomenologically analyzes the various aspects of lived pain experience.
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Chung, Wan-Ling, and 鐘婉綾. "New Perspectives on The Road: A Study of the Work’s Concepts of Nothingness, Death, Language, and Being." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22722842644634503562.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
外國語文學系
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This thesis aims to argue that Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a deeply engaged response to the concepts of nothingness, death, language and Dasein. Death and nothingness are not only the background of the novel, but also echo the philosophical idea of Heidegger and existentialists. With the description of the background of nothingness, the end of the world, the idea of the totality of Dasein can be shown. Through the analysis of relation among the father, the son and the world, the thesis concludes that speaking is the way of caring, which fulfill the totality of Dasein in the novel.
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LIN, NING-ZHEN, and 林寗軫. "Another view of multiple constructions under a space –by the third point of view to think about the consciousness between being and nothingness." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35666729502306803464.
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碩士國立臺南藝術大學
建築藝術研究所
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「Another view 」for me, its kind a self-thought from leaving myself. It is a concept of balance between upside and downside. An imagination way, which pull out leaves self-thought. A little bit like that I am in a space where bareness, non-disturb from others out of the world. An I left myself, in former thought situation. I let go my self-awareness, keeping blank of my mind until leaving the former thought. After that, self-thought started to launches outward, till the main body of my-self getting back my composure. Interfering into the self-thought (redefine my self-thought). Therefore, to understand a matter must from inside to outside. And I do so, the matter I knew before would just like the way I knew. To sum up above, it is a kind of self-thought from leaving myself. I tried to return to the original condition which it is originally appearance what I have seen. It is just like floating matter drifting on the water surface, neither above the water nor under the water, just stayed between upside and downside. Only keeping this situation, then could go interfering the self-essence. This kind of interfere is neither resist nor merge, it is one of MY thought. Not just like the war between vertical and level. What I want is to figure out the answer beyond the border; an answer which is leaving self-awareness. And knew the main idea of ME by the action of leaving for reaching to knew the constructions of BEING and NOTHINGNESS behind the main idea of Me.
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"存有與虛無之間: 當代抽象繪畫的新意義 = In between being and nothingness : new significance of contemporary abstract painting." 1999. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896353.
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文鳳儀.論文 (藝術碩士)--香港中文大學, 1999.
參考文獻 (leaves [1-3] (3rd group)).
附中英文摘要.
Wen Fengyi.
Lun wen (yi shu shuo shi)-- Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 1999.
Can kao wen xian (leaves [1-3] (3rd group)).
Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao.
“抽象´ح是非語言所能描述的空間，接近無言。 --- p.1
"""Representation""(呈現）一字的意涵" --- p.5
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Chapter 第一章 --- 呈現物本身´ؤ´ؤ抽象繪畫的本質 --- p.6
Chapter (一) --- 從語意上詮釋“抽象´ح的意義 --- p.6
Chapter (二) --- 從哲學上詮釋“抽象繪畫´ح --- p.7
看，就是這樣！ --- p.7
第三眼：觸動的眼睛 --- p.8
抽象主義的現實思考 --- p.9
Chapter 第二章 --- 呈現的過程及狀況 --- p.14
從抽象繪畫藝術的歷史演變解讀 --- p.14
Chapter 第三章 --- 存有與虛無之間 --- p.18
Chapter (一) --- 虛空´ؤ´ؤ轉變、轉化的隱喻 --- p.20
Chapter (二) --- 繪畫與工藝間的游移 --- p.23
Chapter (三) --- 挪用與虛擬間的玩弄性質 --- p.27
Chapter (四) --- 新科技等中介物的切入 --- p.32
結語 --- p.34
片斷的總和≠整體 --- p.34
新意義的意義 --- p.34
“之間´ح的契機 --- p.35
參考資料 --- p.37
圓錄 --- p.1-30