Overview

This collection is intercultural philosophy at its best. It contextualizes the global significance of the leading figures of Western phenomenology, including Husserl, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Buber and Levinas, enters them into intercultural dialogue with the Daoism of Laozi and Zhuangzi and in doing so, breaks new ground. By presenting the first sustained analysis of the Daoist worldview by way of phenomenological experience, this book not only furthers our understanding of Daoism and phenomenology, but delves deeper into the roots of human thinking, aesthetic expression, and its impact on the modern social world. The international team of philosophers approach the phenomenological tradition in the broadest sense possible, looking beyond the phenomenological language of Husserl. With chapters on art, ethics, death and the metaphor of dream and hermeneutics, this collection encourages scholars and students in both Asian and Western traditions to rethink their philosophical bearings and engage in meaningful intercultural dialogue.

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Author:   David Chai
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9781350069558

ISBN 10:   1350069558
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   09 January 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1. Precursory Encounters: Unearthing Fertile Seeds 1. Daoism and Hegel on Painting the Invisible Spirit: To Color or Not? David Chai (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 2. Two Portrayals of Death in Light of the Views of Brentano and Early Daoism, Mary I. Bockover (Humboldt State University, USA) 3. In the Light of Heaven before Sunrise: Zhuangzi and Nietzsche on Transperspectival Experience, Graham Parkes (University College Cork, Ireland and East China Normal University, China) Part 2. Early Encounters: Nourishing the Sprouts of Possibility 4. The Pre-objective and the Primordial: Elements of a Phenomenological Reading of Zhuangzi, Kwok-Ying Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 5. Martin Buber's Phenomenological Interpretation of the Daodejing, Eric S. Nelson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) 6. Martin Buber's Dao, Jason M. Wirth (Seattle University, USA) 7. The Dao of Existence: Jaspers and Laozi, Mario Wenning (University of Macau, China) Part 3. Mature Encounters: A Forest of Ideas 8. Heidegger and Daoism: A Dialogue on the Useless Way of Unnecessary Being, Bret W. Davis (Loyola University Maryland, USA) 9. Heidegger and Zhuangzi: The Transformative Art of the Phenomenological Reduction, Patricia Huntington (Arizona State University, USA) 10. The Reader's Chopper: Finding Affinities from Gadamer to Zhuangzi on Reading, Sarah A. Mattice (University of North Florida, USA) 11. Unknowing Silence in the Daodejingand Merleau-Ponty, Katrin Froese (University of Calgary, Canada) Part 4. A Most Urgent Encounter: Re-Rooting Our Futural Selves 12. Grounding Phenomenology in the Daodejing: The Anthropocene, the Fourfold, and the Sage, Martin Schoenfeld (University of South Florida, USA) Index

Reviews

This book covers a lot of ground, and the participation of multiple scholars raises the bar. Bridging the gap between Asian and Western Philosophy, it will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. * Alan Fox, Professor of Asian and Comparative Philosophy and Religion, University of Delaware, USA *

This book covers a lot of ground, and the participation of multiple scholars raises the bar. Bridging the gap between Asian and Western Philosophy, it will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. * Alan Fox, Professor of Asian and Comparative Philosophy and Religion, University of Delaware, USA * David Chai has assembled an excellent cast of comparative philosophers and has given the field a must-read volume on phenomenology and Daoist philosophy. The book is a landmark study with this intercultural encounter being enhanced with chapters by some of comparative philosophy's luminaries and complemented by a host of other prominent thinkers. New ground is broken, especially for the Western phenomenological experience when it is brought into dialogue with the philosophies of Laozi and Zhuangzi. Likewise, traveling the pathway from its counterpart's direction, Daoist philosophy is enriched by its encounter with Western phenomenological thinking and analysis. Spanning the expanse of aesthetics and art, death, silence, ethics, the dream-world, and hermeneutics, Daoist Encounters with Phenomenology tenderly touches all these topics-and even more-in a variety of significant ways. * David Jones, Professor of Philosophy, Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, USA *

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David Chai is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

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