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Dao Companion to the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi

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Editors:
  1. Kim-chong Chong

    1. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

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  • Is a much-needed fresh anthology on the Zhuangzi
  • Is a useful reference for students and advances our understanding
  • Is the most up to date discussion of the Zhuangzi by international scholars

Part of the book series: Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy (DCCP, volume 16)

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Kim-chong Chong
    Pages 1-10

  3. Authorship and Commentary

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Early Chinese Textual Culture and the Zhuangzi Anthology: An Alternative Model for Authorship

      • Esther Sunkyung Klein
      Pages 13-42

    3. The Authorship of the Zhuangzi

      • Yuet Keung Lo
      Pages 43-97

    4. The Lüshi chunqiu 呂氏春秋 as Commentary on the Zhuangzi

      • Scott Cook
      Pages 99-115

  6. Zhuangzi in the Context of Chinese Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 377-377
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    2. Zhuangzi and Laozi: An Intertextual Approach

      • Daniel Fried
      Pages 379-404
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About this book

This comprehensive collection brings out the rich and deep philosophical resources of the Zhuangzi. It covers textual, linguistic, hermeneutical, ethical, social/political and philosophical issues, with the latter including epistemological, metaphysical, phenomenological and cross-cultural (Chinese and Western) aspects. The volume starts out with the textual history of the Zhuangzi, and then examines how language is used in the text. It explores this unique characteristic of the Zhuangzi, in terms of its metaphorical forms, its use of humour in deriding and parodying the Confucians, and paradoxically making Confucius the spokesman for Zhuangzi’s own point of view. The volume discusses questions such as: Why does Zhuangzi use language in this way, and how does it work? Why does he not use straightforward propositional language? Why is language said to be inadequate to capture the “dao” and what is the nature of this dao? The volume puts Zhuangzi in thephilosophical context of his times, and discusses how he relates to other philosophers such as Laozi, Xunzi, and the Logicians.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

    Kim-chong Chong

About the editor

Kim-chong Chong, Volume Editor, is Professor Emeritus at the Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. A previous position was at the Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore where he also served as Head of Department. He is the author of Early Confucian Ethics (Open Court, 2007) and Zhuangzi’s Critique of the Confucians (SUNY Press, 2016).

 

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