Dao companion to Xuanxue

Dao companion to Xuanxue / David Chai, editor.

This comprehensive volume surveys an important but neglected period of Chinese intellectual history: Xuanxue (Neo-Daoism). It provides a holistic approach to the philosophical and religious traits of this movement via the concepts of non-being, being, and oneness. Thinkers and texts on the periphery...

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Other Authors: Chai, David, 1971- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]
Series:Dao companions to Chinese philosophy ; 14.
Subjects:
Taoism > China > History.
Philosophy, Chinese.
Nonbeing.
Ontology.
Taoism.
ontology (metaphysics)
Taoism
Nonbeing
Ontology
Philosophy, Chinese
China
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / David Chai
  • Part I. Background of Xuanxue. 2. Xuanxue's Contributions to Chinese Philosophy / James D. Sellmann ; 3. The Metaphysical Style and Structural Coherence of Names in Xuanxue / Jana S. Rošker
  • Part II. Foreshadowing Xuanxue in the Eastern Han. 4. Oneness in the Taipingjing / Barbara Hendrischke ; 5. Yin and Yang in the Taipingjing / Barbara Hendrischke ; 6. Dao and Ziran in Heshanggong's Commentary on the Daodejing / Misha Tadd ; 7. The Walking Dead: Morality, Health, and Longevity in the Xuanxue Method of the Xiang'er Commentary on the Laozi / Ronnie Littlejohn ; 8. Wang Chong's View of Ziran and its Influence on Wang Bi and Guo Xiang / Alexus McLeod
  • Part III. Xuanxue in the Wei Dynasty. 9. He Yan's "Essay on Dao" and "Essay on the Nameless" / Paul D'Ambrosio ; 10. He Yan's Collected Explanations on the Analects / Yuet Keung Lo ; 11. Ruan Ji's "On Comprehending the Zhuangzi" / David Chai ; 12. Ji Kang's "On Dispelling Self-Interest" / David Chai ; 13. The Aesthetics of Musical Emotion in Ji Kang's "Music has in It Neither Grief nor Joy" / So Jeong Park ; 14. The Ontology of Change: Wang Bi's Interpretation of the Yijing / Tze Ki Hon ; 15. Language and Nothingness in Wang Bi / Eric S. Nelson ; 16. Metaphysics without Ontology: Wang Bi and the Daodejing / Alan Fox
  • Part IV. Xuanxue in the Jin Dynasty. 17. Re-envisioning the Profound Order of Dao: Pei Wei's "Critical Discussion on the Pride of Place of Being" / Alan K.L. Chan ; 18. Metaphysics and Agency in Guo Xiang's Commentary on the Zhuangzi / Chris Fraser ; 19. Lone-Transformation and Intergrowth: Philosophy and Self-Justification in Guo Xiang's Commentary on the Zhuangzi / Yuet Keung Lo ; 20. Guo Xiang's Theory of Sagely Knowledge as Seen in his "Essentials of the Analects" / Richard J. Lynn ; 21. Ge Hong and the Darkness / Gil Raz ; 22. Seeking Immortality in Ge Hong's Baopuzi Neipian / Fabrizio Pregadio ; 23 Ge Hong's Evolving Discourse on You and Wu and its Roots in the Daodejing / Thomas Michael ; 24. The Xuanxue Lifestyle: Self-Cultivation and Qi Practices / Livia Kohn ; 25. Zhi Dun on Freedom: Synthesizing Daoism and Buddhism / Ellen Y. Zhang.

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