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Daodejing (Hardcover)
Lao zi; Translated by Brook Ziporyn
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Grounded in a lifetime of research and interpretive work and
informed by careful study of recent archaeological discoveries of
alternate versions of the text, Brook Ziporyn, one of the
preeminent explicators of Eastern religions in English, brings us a
revelatory new translation-and a radical reinterpretation-of the
central text of Taoist thought. Ziporyn offers an alternative to
the overly comforting tone of so many translations, revealing
instead the electrifying strangeness and explosively unsettling
philosophical implications of this famously ambiguous work. In
Ziporyn's hands, this is no mere "wisdom book" of anodyne
affirmations or mildly diverting brain-teasers-this pathbreaking
Daodejing will forever change how the text is read and understood
in the West.
Brook Ziporyn's carefully crafted, richly annotated translation of
the complete writings of Zhuangzi-including a lucid Introduction, a
Glossary of Essential Terms, and a Bibliography-provides readers
with an engaging and provocative deep dive into this magical work.
Ideal for students and scholars alike, this edition of Zhuangzi
(Chuang Tzu) includes the complete Inner Chapters, extensive
selections from the Outer and Miscellaneous Chapters, and judicious
selections from two thousand years of traditional Chinese
commentaries, which provide the reader access to the text as well
as to its reception and interpretation. A glossary, brief
biographies of the commentators, a bibliography, and an index are
also included.
Brook Ziporyn's carefully crafted, richly annotated translation of
the complete writings of Zhuangzi-including a lucid Introduction, a
Glossary of Essential Terms, and a Bibliography-provides readers
with an engaging and provocative deep dive into this magical work.
Ideal for students and scholars alike, this edition of Zhuangzi
(Chuang Tzu) includes the complete Inner Chapters, extensive
selections from the Outer and Miscellaneous Chapters, and judicious
selections from two thousand years of traditional Chinese
commentaries, which provide the reader access to the text as well
as to its reception and interpretation. A glossary, brief
biographies of the commentators, a bibliography, and an index are
also included.
The Penumbra Unbound is the first English language book-length
study of the Neo-Taoist thinker Guo Xiang (d. 312 C.E.),
commentator on the classic Taoist text, the Zhuangzi. The author
explores Guo's philosophy of freedom and spontaneity, explains its
coherence and importance, and shows its influence on later Chinese
philosophy, particularly Chan Buddhism. The implications of his
thought on freedom versus determinism are also considered in
comparison to several positions advanced in the history of Western
philosophy, notably those of Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer, Fichte,
and Hegel. Guo's thought reinterprets the classical pronouncements
about the Tao so that it in no way signifies any kind of
metaphysical absolute underlying appearances, but rather means
literally "nothing." This absence of anything beyond appearances is
the first premise in Guo's development of a theory of radical
freedom, one in which all phenomenal things are "self-so, "
creating and transforming themselves without depending on any
justification beyond their own temporary being.
Being and Ambiguity is a brilliant work of philosophy, filled with
insights, jokes, and topical examples. Professor Ziporyn draws on
the works of such Western thinkers as Wittgenstein, Nietzsche,
Freud, Sartre, and Hegel, but develops his main argument from
Tiantai school of Chinese Buddhism. This important work introduces
Tiantai Buddhism to the reader and demonstrates its relevance to
profound philosophical issues. Ziporyn argues that we can make both
of the claims below simultaneously: This book is about everything.
It contains the answers to all philosophical problems which ever
shall exist. This book is all claptrap. It is completely devoid of
objective validity of any kind. These claims are not contradictory.
Rather, they state the same thing in two different ways. To be
objective truth is to be subjective claptrap, and vise versa. All
interchanges of any kind - conversations, daydreams, sensations -
are not only about something but also about everything. Thus, this
book concerns itself with no less than the nature of what is and
what it means for something to be what it is. It provides a new
approach to the basic Western philosophical and psychological
issues of identity, determinacy, being, desire, boredom, addiction,
love and truth.
Providing a bracing expansion of horizons, this book displays the
unsuspected range of human thinking on the most basic categories of
experience. The way in which early Chinese thinkers approached
concepts such as one and many, sameness and difference, self and
other, and internal and external stand in stark contrast to the way
parallel concepts entrenched in much of modern thinking developed
in Greek and European thought. Brook Ziporyn traces the distinctive
and surprising philosophical journeys found in the works of the
formative Confucian and Daoist thinkers back to a prevailing set of
assumptions that tends to see questions of identity, value, and
knowledge the subject matter of ontology, ethics, and epistemology
in other traditions as all ultimately relating to questions about
coherence in one form or another. Mere awareness of how many
different ways human beings can think and have thought about these
categories is itself a game changer for our own attitudes toward
what is thinkable for us. The actual inhabitation and mastery of
these alternative modes of thinking is an even greater adventure in
intellectual and experiential expansion."
"Beyond Oneness and Difference" considers the development of one of
the key concepts of Chinese intellectual history, "Li." A grasp of
the strange history of this term and its seemingly conflicting
implications as oneness and differentiation, as the knowable and as
what transcends knowledge, as the good and as the transcendence of
good and bad, as order and as omnipresence raises questions about
the most basic building blocks of our thinking. This exploration
began in the book s companion volume, " Ironies of Oneness and
Difference," which detailed how formative Confucian and Daoist
thinkers approached and demarcated concepts of coherence, order,
and value, identifying both ironic and non-ironic trends in the
elaboration of these core ideas. In the present volume, Brook
Ziporyn goes on to examine the implications of Li as they develop
in Neo-Daoist metaphysics and in Chinese Buddhism, ultimately
becoming foundational to Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism,
the orthodox ideology of late imperial China. Ziporyn s
interrogation goes beyond analysis to reveal the unsuspected range
of human thinking on these most fundamental categories of ontology,
metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics."
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