Thomas Michael

Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism (eBook, ePUB)

In the Matrix of the Daodejing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350236677
• Artikelnr.: 62284627

Autorenporträt

Thomas Michael is Associate Professor at the Beijing Normal University, China.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements PROLOGUE: APPROACHING THE MATRIX 1. Matrix Side A:
Conventions of the Dao 2. Matrix Side B: Yangsheng, According to Ge Hong
PART I: YANGSHENG DAOISM AND THE MATRIX 3. Uncovering Yangsheng Daoism 4.
The Measurability of Chang 5. The Temporality of Heng PART II: HUANG-LAO
DAOISM AND THE MATRIX 6. Yan Zun and Heshang Gong PART III: GE HONG AND THE
MATRIX 7. Ge Hong and the Philosophy of the Pristine Dao 8. Ge Hong and
Yangsheng Daoism EPILOGUE: YANGSHENG DAOISM AND COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY 9.
Heidegger and the Philosophy of the Dao Bibliography Index