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Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish / ed. by Takahiro Nakajima, Roger T. Ames.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 5 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824846831
  • 9780824854256
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 299.51482 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Zhuangzi: The Happy Fish -- 2. Yuzhile: The Joy of Fishes, or, The Play on Words -- 3. The Relatively Happy Fish -- 4. Zhuangzi's Notion of Transcendental Life -- 5. Knowledge and Happiness in the Debate over the Happiness of the Fish -- 6. The Relatively Happy Fish Revisited -- 7. Knowing the Joy of Fish: The Zhuangzi and Analytic Philosophy -- 8. Of Fish and Knowledge: On the Validity of Cross-Cultural Understanding -- 9. Zhuangzi and Theories of the Other -- 10. Of Fish and Men: Species Diff erence and the Strangeness of Being Human in the Zhuangzi -- 11. The Happy Fish of the Disputers -- 12. Fact and Experience: A Look at the Root of Philosophy from the Happy Fish Debate -- 13. Rambling without Destination On Daoist " You-ing" in the World -- 14. "Knowing" as the "Realizing of Happiness" Here, on the Bridge, over the River Hao -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: The Zhuangzi is a deliciously protean text: it is concerned not only with personal realization, but also (albeit incidentally) with social and political order. In many ways the Zhuangzi established a unique literary and philosophical genre of its own, and while clearly the work of many hands, it is one of the finest pieces of literature in the classical Chinese corpus. It employs every trope and literary device available to set off rhetorically charged flashes of insight into the most unrestrained way to live one's life, free from oppressive, conventional judgments and values. The essays presented here constitute an attempt by a distinguished community of international scholars to provide a variety of exegeses of one of the Zhuangzi's most frequently rehearsed anecdotes, often referred to as "the Happy Fish debate."The editors have brought together essays from the broadest possible compass of scholarship, offering interpretations that range from formal logic to alternative epistemologies to transcendental mysticism. Many were commissioned by the editors and appear for the first time. Some of them have been available in other languages-Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish-and were translated especially for this anthology. And several older essays were chosen for the quality and variety of their arguments, formulated over years of engagement by their authors. All, however, demonstrate that the Zhuangzi as a text and as a philosophy is never one thing; indeed, it has always been and continues to be, many different things to many different people.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Zhuangzi: The Happy Fish -- 2. Yuzhile: The Joy of Fishes, or, The Play on Words -- 3. The Relatively Happy Fish -- 4. Zhuangzi's Notion of Transcendental Life -- 5. Knowledge and Happiness in the Debate over the Happiness of the Fish -- 6. The Relatively Happy Fish Revisited -- 7. Knowing the Joy of Fish: The Zhuangzi and Analytic Philosophy -- 8. Of Fish and Knowledge: On the Validity of Cross-Cultural Understanding -- 9. Zhuangzi and Theories of the Other -- 10. Of Fish and Men: Species Diff erence and the Strangeness of Being Human in the Zhuangzi -- 11. The Happy Fish of the Disputers -- 12. Fact and Experience: A Look at the Root of Philosophy from the Happy Fish Debate -- 13. Rambling without Destination On Daoist " You-ing" in the World -- 14. "Knowing" as the "Realizing of Happiness" Here, on the Bridge, over the River Hao -- Contributors -- Index

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The Zhuangzi is a deliciously protean text: it is concerned not only with personal realization, but also (albeit incidentally) with social and political order. In many ways the Zhuangzi established a unique literary and philosophical genre of its own, and while clearly the work of many hands, it is one of the finest pieces of literature in the classical Chinese corpus. It employs every trope and literary device available to set off rhetorically charged flashes of insight into the most unrestrained way to live one's life, free from oppressive, conventional judgments and values. The essays presented here constitute an attempt by a distinguished community of international scholars to provide a variety of exegeses of one of the Zhuangzi's most frequently rehearsed anecdotes, often referred to as "the Happy Fish debate."The editors have brought together essays from the broadest possible compass of scholarship, offering interpretations that range from formal logic to alternative epistemologies to transcendental mysticism. Many were commissioned by the editors and appear for the first time. Some of them have been available in other languages-Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish-and were translated especially for this anthology. And several older essays were chosen for the quality and variety of their arguments, formulated over years of engagement by their authors. All, however, demonstrate that the Zhuangzi as a text and as a philosophy is never one thing; indeed, it has always been and continues to be, many different things to many different people.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)