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Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish
Roger T. Ames (Ed.)
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Description for Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish
Hardcover. Editor(s): Ames, Roger T.; Nakajima, Takahiro. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HPDF; HRKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 152. .
The Zhuangzi is a deliciously protean text: it is concerned not only with personal realization, but also (albeit incidentally) with social and political order. In many ways the Zhuangzi established a unique literary and philosophical genre of its own, and while clearly the work of many hands, it is one of the finest pieces ofliterature in the classical Chinese corpus. It employs every trope and literary device available to set off rhetorically charged flashes of insight into the most unrestrained way to live one’s life, free from oppressive, conventional judgments and values. The essays presented here constitute an attempt by ... Read more
The Zhuangzi is a deliciously protean text: it is concerned not only with personal realization, but also (albeit incidentally) with social and political order. In many ways the Zhuangzi established a unique literary and philosophical genre of its own, and while clearly the work of many hands, it is one of the finest pieces ofliterature in the classical Chinese corpus. It employs every trope and literary device available to set off rhetorically charged flashes of insight into the most unrestrained way to live one’s life, free from oppressive, conventional judgments and values. The essays presented here constitute an attempt by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Univ of Hawaii Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824846831
SKU
V9780824846831
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About Roger T. Ames (Ed.)
Roger T. Ames is professor of philosophy at the University of Hawai'i, USA and editor of Philosophy East and West. Takahiro Nakajima is associate professor of Chinese philosophy at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, Japan.
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