Youru Wang

The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness (eBook, PDF)

Engaging the Daoist Zhuangzi in Studies of Cultivated Forgetting

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the various meanings of forgetting and their ethical dimension in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi. It will be of interest to researchers in Asian philosophy, religion and culture, moral philosophy or ethics, the study of memory and forgetting, and comparative or cross-cultural philosophy and ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040109229
• Artikelnr.: 72273362

Autorenporträt

Youru Wang is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and World Religions, Rowan University, USA. He is the author of Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism: The Other Way of Speaking (Routledge/Curzon, 2003), Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism (Rowman & Litlefield 2017), the editor of Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought (Routledge 2007) and the co-editor of Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy (Springer 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Chapter 1. A Critical Survey of Recent Scholarship on Human
Forgetting and Its Ethical Dimension; Chapter 2. Therapeutic Forgetting in
the Zhuangzi; Chapter 3. Forgetting Oneself or Personal Identity in
Relation to Time and Otherness; Chapter 4. The Ethical Dimension of
Forgetting at the Social-Institutional Level (I): The Conception of
Responsiveness to Others in Relation to Forgetting Oneself; Chapter 5. The
Ethical Dimension of Forgetting at the Social-Institutional Level (II): The
Zhuangzian Capacity for Responsiveness to Others; Chapter 6. From
Suitableness and the Forgetting of Invariable Norms, to
Patient-Centeredness and Altruistic Elements; Chapter 7. Empathic Capacity
in the Zhuangzi and How It Works with the Forgetting of Oneself; Chapter 8.
Forgetfulness and Friendship in the Zhuangzi and in Derrida; Epilogue:
Answers to Two Questions about Forgetting; Bibliography; Index