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Tracing the source of nurturing life: a hermeneutic interpretation of Zhuangzi’s “Essence of Nurturing Life”

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study addresses a critical gap in Daoist scholarship by revisiting the concept of “nurturing life” (養生) in Zhuangzi: Essence of Nurturing Life, an idea often reduced to either medical pragmatism or mystical abstraction in contemporary ...
Wei Gu, Hua Cai
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“Circulations” and Self-Transcendence: A Comparative Study of Emerson and Zhuangzi

Religions
In this article, I begin with the topic of “circulations”, conducting a comparative analysis of the similarities and differences in Emerson’s and Zhuangzi’s philosophies regarding “circulations” as the mode of cosmic generation and operation, as well as ...
Meng Jia
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Re‐spiritualising geographies of subjectivity through Daoism

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 1, March 2026.
Short Abstract Drawing on Daoist philosophy, this intervention provides an alternative account of spiritual selfhood that harmonises disconnections between subjectivity and the Universe around the lived body. It invokes a cosmological selfhood through re‐spiritualising the bodily geographies of subjectivity.
Yu‐Shan Tseng
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Sense perception in the Zhuangzi 莊子 [PDF]

, 2022
In this essay I explore the controversial issue of sense perception in the Zhuangzi 莊子. Although scholars have not explicitly addressed this aspect of the Chinese text, a common assumption is that the Zhuangzi proposes a mysticism that undermines sense ...
Lacertosa, Massimiliano
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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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Zhuangzi\u27s word, Heidegger\u27s word, and the confucian word

, 2021
Traditional Chinese commentators rightly see that understanding Zhuangzi\u27s way with words is the presupposition for understanding Zhuangzi at all. They are not sure, however, if Zhuangzi\u27s words are super-effective or pure nonsense.
Møllgaard, Eske J.
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From emotion regulation to the cultivation of existential feelings: A Zhuangzi-inspired perspective on flourishing as an affective being

Asian Philosophy
This essay challenges the dominant Western model of affective flourishing, which emphasizes regulating emotions through cognitive control and evaluative judgment.
Qian-Nan Li
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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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Chaotische Totalität und undifferenzierte Leere

Interkulturelles Forum der deutsch-chinesischen Kommunikation
Alfred Döblins bedient sich in seinem Großstadtroman Berlin, Alexanderplatz der Montagetechnik. Zahlreiche Kritiker sind einhellig zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass Döblin sich von der Kinematographie und der zeitgenössischen Literatur zur Montagetechnik ...
Zhang Hui
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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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