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Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism - In the Matrix of the Daodejing (Hardcover)
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Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism - In the Matrix of the Daodejing (Hardcover)
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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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