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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824621503321

Autore

Michael Thomas

Titolo

In the shadows of the Dao : Laozi, the sage, and the Daodejing / / Thomas Michael

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4384-5899-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Disciplina

299.5/1482

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Reading the Daodejing Synthetically; Orientations; Conventions; Shadows; On the early daoism label; 2. Modern Scholarship on the Daodejing; Religious and philosophical approaches to the daodejing; Modern western approaches to the daodejing; Modern chinese approaches to the daodejing; 3. Traditions of Reading the Daodejing; Daojia, daojiao, and early daoism; The role of commentary in the daodejing; The heshang gong commentary; The xiang'er commentary; The wang bi commentary; Three commentaries in comparison; 4. The Daos of Laozi and Confucius

Records of the interviewGlimpses into the dao of antiquity; The fault line; Two disciplines of the body; Laozi and confucius revisited; 5. Early Daoism, Yangsheng, and the Daodejing; The hiddenness of early daoism; A separate history; Orality and the daodejing; Early daoism and yangsheng; Two master traditions and a third; Yangsheng and the daodejing; 6. The Sage and the World; Early chinese archetypes: the sage, the king, and the general; The benefits of the sage; Qi: the stuff of life; De: circulation is not always virtuous; De in action; 7. The Sage and the Project; The death-world

ProjectsThe great project of the world; Salvation; 8. The Sage and Bad Knowledge; A confucian study break; Knowledge and yangsheng sequences; Brightness and yangsheng sequences; Knowledge is a sickness; The question of early daoism revisited; 9. The Sage and Good



Knowledge; The second-order harmony; Yangsheng and the knowledge of the sage; Appendix: The Daodejing; Notes; Bibliography; Primary Sources and Critical Texts: Daodejing; Secondary Sources; Index