New Visions of the Zhuangzi

Editor:
Livia Kohn

Publication Year:
2015


Publisher:
Three Pines Press

Abstract:
New Visions of the Zhuangzi is a collection of thirteen essays on the ancient Daoist philosophical work, presenting new angles and approaches. It overcomes the traditional division of schools in favor of topics, sheds new light on key philosophical notions, examines Zhuangzi's use of language, and explores issues of his use of language. In addition, it also applies modern neuroscience to its instructions, explores its vision of the ideal mind, and connects Zhuangzi's teachings to issues of education and community relevant in contemporary society.

Table of Contents:

Preface 
Livia Kohn v

Beyond Our Control?
Two Responses to Uncertainty and Fate in Early China
Mercedes Valmisa 1

Joys of an Empty Skull:
The Tension between Nature and Death in the Zhuangzi
Agnė Budriūnaitė 24

Zhuangzi and the Heterogeneity of Value
Chris Fraser 41

Zhuangzi’s Weiwuwei Epistemology:
Seeing through Dichotomy to Polarity
Alan Fox 61

Parodoxes of Health and Power in the Zhuangzi
Hans-Georg Moeller 72

Zhuangzi 莊子 x Comme des Garçons:
When Dress Meets Body in the Warring States
Lucia Q. Tang 84

How Metaphor Functions in the Zhuangzi:
The Case of the Unlikely Messenger
Robert Elliott Allinson 97

Different Layers of Ineffability in the Zhuangzi
Roy Porat 119

The Rhetoric of Transformation:
The Arts of Persuasion in the Zhuangzi
Jung Lee 137

Hermits, Mountains, and Yangsheng in Early Daoism:
Perspectives from the Zhuangzi
Thomas Michael 149

Forget or Not Forget? The Neurophysiology of Zuowang
Livia Kohn 165

Infants, Children, and Moral Development in the Zhuangzi
and the Daode jing
Erin M. Cline 184

Zhuangzi and the Coming Community
Eske J. Møllgaard 205

Contributors 215

Index 217