The Pristine Dao
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Author |
: Thomas Michael |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2012-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780791483176 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0791483177 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pristine Dao by : Thomas Michael
The Laozi (Daodejing) and the Zhuangzi have long been familiar to Western readers and have served as basic sources of knowledge about early Chinese Daoism. Modern translations and studies of these works have encouraged a perception of Daoism as a mystical philosophy heavy with political implications that advises kings to become one with the Dao. Breaking with this standard approach, The Pristine Dao argues that the Laozi and the Zhuangzi participated in a much wider tradition of metaphysical discourse that included a larger corpus of early Chinese writings. This book demonstrates that early Daoist discourse possessed a distinct, textually constituted coherence and a religious sensibility that starkly differed from the intellectual background of all other traditions of early China, including Confucianism. The author argues that this discourse is best analyzed through its emergence from the mythological imagination of early China, and that it was unified by a set of notions about the Dao that was shared by all of its participants. The author introduces certain categories from the Western religious and philosophical traditions in order to bring out the distinctive qualities constituting this discourse and to encourage its comparison with other religious and philosophical traditions.
Author |
: Thomas Michael |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2015-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438458991 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438458991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Shadows of the Dao by : Thomas Michael
Thomas Michael's study of the early history of the Daodejing reveals that the work is grounded in a unique tradition of early Daoism, one unrelated to other early Chinese schools of thought and practice. The text is associated with a tradition of hermits committed to yangsheng, a particular practice of physical cultivation involving techniques of breath circulation in combination with specific bodily movements leading to a physical union with the Dao. Michael explores the ways in which the text systematically anchored these techniques to a Dao-centered worldview. Including a new translation of the Daodejing, In the Shadows of the Dao opens new approaches to understanding the early history of one of the world's great religious texts and great religious traditions.
Author |
: Daniel Fried |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2018-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438471945 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438471947 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dao and Sign in History by : Daniel Fried
From its earliest origins in the Dao De Jing, Daoism has been known as a movement that is skeptical of the ability of language to fully express the truth. While many scholars have compared the earliest works of Daoism to language-skeptical movements in twentieth-century European philosophy and have debated to what degree early Daoism does or does not resemble these recent movements, Daniel Fried breaks new ground by examining a much broader array of Daoist materials from ancient and medieval China and showing how these works influenced ideas about language in medieval religion, literature, and politics. Through an extended comparison with a broad sample of European philosophical works, the book explores how ideas about language grow out of a given historical moment and advances a larger argument about how philosophical and religious ideas cannot be divided into "content" and "context."
Author |
: Ronnie Littlejohn |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2012-01-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438434575 |
ISBN-13 |
: 143843457X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Riding the Wind with Liezi by : Ronnie Littlejohn
The Liezi is the forgotten classic of Daoism. Along with the Laozi (Daodejing) and the Zhuangzi, it's been considered a Daoist masterwork since the mid-eighth century, yet unlike those well-read works, the Liezi is little known and receives scant scholarly attention. Nevertheless, the Liezi is an important text that sheds valuable light on the early history of Daoism, particularly the formative period of sectarian Daoism. We do not know exactly what shape the original text took, but what remains is replete with fantastic characters, whimsical tales, paradoxical aphorisms, and philosophically sophisticated reflection on the nature of the world and humanity's place within it. Ultimately, the Liezi sees the world as one of change and indeterminacy. Arguing for the Liezi's historical, philosophical, and literary significance, the contributors to this volume offer a fresh look at this text, using contemporary approaches and providing novel insights. The volume is unique in its attention to both philosophical and religious perspectives.
Author |
: Laozi |
Publisher |
: University of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2019-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520305571 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520305574 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dao De Jing by : Laozi
The Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C., its enigmatic verses have inspired artists, philosophers, poets, religious thinkers, and general readers past and present. This new translation captures the beauty and nuance of the original work. In addition, the extensive and accessible commentary by Moss Roberts sheds light on the work’s historical and philosophical contexts and shows how the Dao De Jing addresses topics of relevance to our own times, such as politics, statecraft, cosmology, aesthetics, and ethics.
Author |
: Thomas Michael |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2021-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350236660 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350236667 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism by : Thomas Michael
In Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism, Thomas Michael illuminates the formative early history of the Daodejing and the social, political, religious, and philosophical trends that indelibly marked it. This book centers on the matrix of the Daodejing that harbors a penetrating phenomenology of the Dao together with a rigorous system of bodily cultivation. It traces the historical journey of the text from its earliest oral circulations to its later transcriptions seen in a growing collection of ancient Chinese excavated manuscripts. It examines the ways in which Huang-Lao thinkers from the Han Dynasty transformed the original phenomenology of the Daodejing into a metaphysics that reconfigured its original matrix, and it explores the success of the Wei-Jin Daoist Ge Hong in bringing the matrix back into its original alignment. This book is an important contribution to cross-cultural studies, bringing contemporary Chinese scholarship on Daoism into direct conversation with Western scholarship on Daoism. The book also concludes with a discussion of Martin Heidegger's recognition of the position and value of the Daodejing for the future of comparative philosophy.
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: |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 470 |
Release |
: 2013-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438446516 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438446519 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Way of Complete Perfection by :
An anthology of English translations of primary texts of the Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) school of Daoism.
Author |
: Laozi |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:670129765 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tao Te Ching by : Laozi
Author |
: Mark Csikszentmihalyi |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1999-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791441121 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791441121 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi by : Mark Csikszentmihalyi
Leading scholars examine religious and philosophical dimensions of the Chinese classic known as the Daodejing or Laozi.
Author |
: Laozi |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015051572389 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Daodejing by : Laozi
In 1993, archaeologists unearthed a set of ancient bamboo scrolls that contained the earliest known version of theDao de jing. Composed more than two thousand years ago, this life-changing document offers a regimen of self-cultivation to attain personal excellence and revitalize moral behavior. Now in this luminous new translation, renowned China scholars Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall bring the timeless wisdom of theDao de jinginto our contemporary world. In this elegant volume, Ames and Hall feature the original Chinese texts of theDao de jingand translate them into crisp, chiseled English that reads like poetry. Each of the eighty-one brief chapters is followed by clear, thought-provoking commentary exploring the layers of meaning in the text. This new version of one of the world’s most influential documents will stand as both a compelling introduction to Daoist thought and as the classic modern English translation. From the Trade Paperback edition.