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Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi

By Ames, Roger T.

Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi book

Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi

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A diverse collection of interpretive essays on the third-century B.C.E. Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi, which continues the long commentarial tradition on this work and underscores its relevance to our own time and place. Chinese philosophy specialists examine the Zhuangzi, a third century B.C.E. Daoist classic, in this collection of interpretive essays. The Zhuangzi is a celebration of human creativity-its language is lucid and opaque; its images are darkly brilliant; its ideas are seriously playful. Without question, it is one of the most challenging achievements of human literary culture. Thematically, the Zhuangzi offers diverse insights into how to develop an appropriate and productive attitude to one's life in this world. Resourced over the centuries by Chinese artists and intellectuals alike, this text has provoked a commentarial tradition that rivals any masterpiece of world literature. Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi continues the interpretive tradition as Western scholars shed light on selected passages from the difficult text, offering the needed mediation between available translations of the Zhuangzi and the reader's process of understanding. Taken as a whole, this anthology is a primer on how to read the Zhuangzi.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
1998-09-11
Publication Date:
1998-09-11
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0791439224
ISBN13:
9780791439227
Weight:
408 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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