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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823085903321

Autore

Ziporyn Brook <1964->

Titolo

The Penumbra unbound [[electronic resource] ] : the neo-Taoist philosophy of Guo Xiang / / Brook Ziporyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003

ISBN

0-7914-8716-4

1-4175-0684-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Disciplina

181/.114

Soggetti

Taoist philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- The Penumbra Unbound -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- Introduction -- The Classical Chinese Philosophical Background -- An Overview of Guo Xiang's Philosophical Project -- The Problem of Spontaneity and Morality in Earlier Xuanxue -- Guo's Solution:The Image of Traces -- The Dangers of Traces -- Part II -- Interactivity Without Traces: "Vanishing (Into) Things" -- The Unification of Independence and Interdependence -- Part III -- Lone-Transformation -- The Unity of Activity and Nonactivity -- Appendix A -- Guo Xiang's Use of the Term Xing:The Inherency of Change and the Confluence of Chance, Freedom, and Necessity in the Notion of the Self-So -- Appendix B -- Comparative Notes on Freedom and Determinism -- Notes -- PART I -- PART II -- PART III -- APPENDICES -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the work of Guo Xiang, a Neo-Taoist thinker who developed a radical philosophy of freedom and spontaneity.