In Praise Of Blandness

New York: Zone Books, 2004. First English Language Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [6], 7-169. Illustrated with reproductions of Chinese art and calligraphic scrolls. With a glossary of Chinese expressions, and notes on major Chinese figures cited in the text. Bound in full black cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. A fresh copy in… Read more about this item

NY:: Zone Books,. Fine. 2008. Paperback. 9781890951429 . Translated from the French by Paula M. Varsano. First edition thus (paperback). Fine in white, printed wraps. .

Hardback. New. A consideration of blandness not as the absence of defining qualities but as the harmonious union of all potential values-an infinite opening into human experience.

Zone Books for MIT Press, Cambridge MA 2004. 23.0 x 15.0cms, 168pp, very good hardback & dustwrapper This book explores the resonances of the bland in literary, philosophical and religious texts and to see how Confucisanism, Daoism & Buddhism converge in harmonious accord.

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hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New. A consideration of blandness not as the absence of defining qualities but as the harmonious union of all potential values-an infinite opening into human experience.