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Távol-keleti Tanulmányok, 2019 In the first part of my paper, I survey the Daoist manuscripts found in the library cave (Cave 17) of Dunhuang. After a brief summary of the textual history of the Zhuangzi 莊子 and its commentaries, I focus on a single manuscript kept at the British ...
Gábor Kósa
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Asian Studies, 2019 Deleuze has presented one of the richest ontologies in 20th century philosophy, and its conceptual machinery could be more fully used also in Sinology. This article focuses on two of his concepts: actualization and counter-actualization.
Margus OTT
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Irony and salvation: A possible conversation between Kierkegaard and Zhuangzi
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 This article endeavours to provide a cross-cultural juxtaposition between Kierkegaard and Zhuangzi, two thinkers of significant stature in the history of Eastern and Western philosophy, to unveil a profound congruity between Christian and Daoist thoughts.
Peiyi Yang
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Ripensare l’esperienza estetica attraverso lo Zhuangzi
Rivista di Estetica, 2022 In this paper I consider two different perspectives on aesthetic experience. On the one hand, there is the tradition of Plato that proposes a metaphysical representation of the world in which sensible and over-sensible are rigidly separated. On the other
Massimiliano Lacertosa
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The Motherboard of Myriad Things
Asian Studies, 2022 Machines, instruments and tools offer many benefits, but according to the classical Daoists—Laozi and Zhuangzi—they can also interfere with living a life in harmony with nature.
Billy Wheeler
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Religions, 2022 The main aim of this paper is to illustrate human–nature relations from a comparative study of the contexts of later Merleau-Ponty and the Zhuangzi. I argue that the Zhuangzi has its own phenomenology of the natural world, which is worth comparing to ...
Zheng Liu
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The Possibility of Asking about Dao: On the Philosophical Significance of Dialogue in the Zhuangzi
Religions, 2023 In contrast to the aphoristic style of the Daodejing, Zhuangzi is known for its abundant use of dialogues. These dialogues, especially those found in chapters 21 and 22, are consciously organized around the theme of “asking about Dao”.
Yiming Wang
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Aisthesis, 2022 Este ensayo sugiere una lectura alternativa del relato del “Cocinero Ding” en el Zhuangzi. Se arguye que esta famosa historia puede ser leída como una crítica del ritual y la política en la China antigua, así como del violento régimen de domesticación ...
Hans-Georg Moeller
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Skilful Practice in the Zhuangzi: Putting the Narratives in Context
Asian Studies, 2017 The Zhuangzi, like many other early Chinese texts, is a composite work consisting of relatively short textual units. Despite its composite nature, the Zhuangzi is often approached as a philosophical work, which (at least in part or parts) can be viewed ...
Dušan VÁVRA
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Authority without Authenticity: The Zhuangzi’s Genuine Pretending as Socio-Political Strategy
Religions, 2018 In this paper, we present a socio-political reading of the Zhuangzi based in part on a brief review of contemporary Chinese scholarship on the text. We will argue that the approach to dealing with authority in the Zhuangzi can be summarized by the phrase
Paul D’Ambrosio, Hans-Georg Moeller
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