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Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish (Paperback)
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Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish (Paperback)
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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 a distinguished
community of international scholars to provide a variety of
exegeses of one of the Zhuangzi's most frequently rehearsed
anecdotes, often referred to as "the Happy Fish debate." The
editors have brought together essays from the broadest possible
compass of scholarship, offering interpretations that range from
formal logic to alternative epistemologies to transcendental
mysticism. Many were commissioned by the editors and appear for the
first time. Some of them have been available in other
languages-Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish-and were translated
especially for this anthology. And several older essays were chosen
for the quality and variety of their arguments, formulated over
years of engagement by their authors. All, however, demonstrate
that the Zhuangzi as a text and as a philosophy is never one thing;
indeed, it has always been and continues to be, many different
things to many different people.
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