Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 356 g
ISBN: 978-1-118-46574-5
Verlag: BLACKWELL PUBL
* Offers a detailed introduction to the core texts in Daoist philosophy, the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi, two of the most widely read - and most challenging - texts in China's long literary history
* Covers the three main ways the texts can be read: as religious, mystical, and philosophical works
* Explores their historical context, origins, authorship, and the reasons these seminal texts came into being, along with the key terms and approaches they take
* Examines the core philosophical arguments made in the texts, as well as the many ways in which they have been interpreted, both in China itself and in the West
* Provides readers with an unrivalled insight into the multifaceted philosophy of Daoism - and the principles underlying much of Chinese culture - informed by the very latest academic scholarship
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Book Notes x
Chronology xi
Section One: The Context
Chapter One The Social and Political Background-- Confucianism--Mozi and Mohism (Moe-ds) and (Moe-ism)--Yang Zhu and Shen Dao (Ya-ahng, Jew)-- Language and Logicians--Trends During the Warring States Era--Cultural Heroes and Concepts--Summary 3
Section Two: Authors and Texts
Chapter Two The Dao De Jing--Why Does the Dao De Jing/Tao Te Ching/Laozi/Lao Tzu Have So Many Names?-- Dao De Jing, The Author--Dao De Jing, the Text--The Dao De Jing, the Style of the Text--The Dao De Jing in the West-- The Zhuangzi, the Author--The Zhuangzi, the Text--The
Zhuangzi, the Style of the Text--The Zhuangzi in the West--Issues in Translation--Summary
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Chapter Three The Dao? A Dao? Dao? daos? dao?--Images: 49
Water, Women, Baby, Root, and Others--What Is the Problem?--Conventional Values: Pairs of Opposites-- Being and Non-Being--Summary
Chapter Four Illogical Statements?--Decoding--Not Acting, Not Knowing, Not Desiring--Ziran, Self-So, Natural, Spontaneous--Language--Morality--Summary 70
Chapter Five War--Government, Society, and the Sage- Ruler--The Golden Age--Advice for Would-Be Sages--Losing dao--Summary 90
Chapter Six What Is the Problem?--Anti-Confucians-- Anti-Mohists--Being Useless--Point of View--This and That--Knowing How--Knowing What--Summary 111
Chapter Seven Language: Convention and Culture--This/ That, True/False--Language Is OK, Up to a Point-- How to Use Language--Clarity--Death-- Transformation--Survival of Consciousness and an Afterlife--Immortality--Dao--Summary 132
Chapter Eight Public Life--The Golden Age--What Should We Do?--Mirror--Forgetting--Mind/Heart Fasting--Perfected People--The Relationship of the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi--Summary 156
Section Three: Developing Dao
Chapter Nine The School of Zhuangzi and Followers of the Dao De Jing--The Han Feizi--The Guanzi--Huang- Lao--The Huainanzi--The Liezi--The Han Dynasty and Beyond--Summary
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Chapter Ten Organized Daoism--The Search for Immortality--Organized Groups--The Cult of Laozi-- Modern Organized Daoism--The Mystical Reading-- The Philosophical Reading--Modern Daoism--Dao Lite--A Lao-Zhuang Daoist--What Is Daoism and Other Problems 202
Glossary of Technical Terms 232
Glossary of Pronunciation 235
Further Reading 237
Bibliography 239
Index 252
