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Three Tropes in the Zhuangzi [PDF]
, 2019 The art of writing in the Zhuangzi has become a subject of considerable interest in recent years, but many perspectives have yet to be explored. The Zhuangzi is known for its delicate and protean art of writing.
Xuanying Wang
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Nothing Rather than Something: A Zhuangzian Reappraisal of Nihilism
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 483-502, December 2025.ABSTRACT Nihilism comes from the Latin nihil, meaning “nothing.” It is the belief that nothing inherently governs existence: no values, principles, or ultimate meaning. Many philosophers treat this as an existential crisis: If there is no meaning to our lives and actions, why bother? This work challenges the assumption that nihilism is terrifying.
Christine Abigail L. Tan
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Mysticism in the Zhuangzi [PDF]
, 2017 This dissertation proposes that the Zhuangzi contains some elements of mysticism, but not in the straightforward manner that scholars have typically suggested. A review of theories of mysticism shows that ‘mysticism’ in English-language literature covers
McConochie, Thomas
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Tao is hidden and nameless: Exploring the mysticism path of Laozi and Zhuangzi
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesThe contemporary interpretation of Lao-Zhuang’s thought reveals a multidimensional dialogue between tradition and modernity, the local and the exotic, and East and West.
Yue Sun, Yuehua Chen
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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 6, Page 623-640, November 2025.Abstract In recent scholarship, the dominant reading of Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal recurrence has been as a thought experiment. This paper responds to this in two ways. First, this paper relocates eternal recurrence in the context of Nietzsche’s abiding concern with the ‘preaching of death’, a powerful, life‐negating weapon of the ascetic ...
Mark Higgins
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, 2015 Includes bibliographical references and index.Beyond our control?: two responses to uncertainty and fate in early China / Mercedes Valmisa -- Joys of an empty skull: the tension between nature and death in the Zhuangzi / Agnė Budriūnaitė -- Zhuangzi and ...
Kohn, Livia(viaf)110894388edt
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Mastering the Body: Reading a Discourse of Embodiment in the Zhuangzi
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.ABSTRACT The Zhuangzi is one of the most well‐known early Chinese classics. Subversive and iconoclastic, both in terms of its subject matter and narrative style, the text has profoundly influenced the intellectual and literary history of East Asia. First introduced to the West in the late nineteenth century as an early “Daoist” classic, the Zhuangzi ...
Lana Ko
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Introduction: Convergences and religious change in Asian religions
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 258-267, August 2025.Abstract This introduction to the special issue examines various approaches to understanding religious change in Asia. It revisits models for religious change—particularly rupture and repair, both featured in prior TAJA issues—and acknowledges their usefulness while also highlighting their limitations.
Kendall R. Marchman
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, 2023 L'incontro propone un avvicinamento al filosofo della Cina antica Zhuangzi, attraverso letture recitate da attori della Compagnia Teatrale Chapati e spiegazioni corredate di suggestioni visuali tratte dal fumetto Zhuangzi, di Cai ...
Caschera, Martina
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PROTO PASNINKAVIMAS KINŲ FILOSOFIJOS TYRIMUOSE: LIU XIAOGAN PRIEŠ ESTHER KLEIN
Problemos, 2017 Straipsnyje remiantis dialogu iš Zhuangzi išskiriami trys susiję akademinių debatų sluoksniai. Viršutinis yra nesutarimas, išreiškiamas žinojimo terminais: faktai, teorijos, hipotezės ir kt. Žemiau yra retai pripažįstamas, tačiau nepaisant to reikšmingas
Carine Defoort
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