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SUNY PRESS Freedom's Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang's Zhuangzi (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

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Eastern Mystical Philosophy

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Draws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political. This book starts with the radical premise that the most coherent way to read the Zhuangzi is through Guo Xiang (d. 312 CE), the classic Daoist text's first and most important commentator, and that the best way to read Guo Xiang is politically. Offering an investigation of the notions of causality, self, freedom, and its political implications, the book provides a comprehensive account of freedom that is both ontological and political, using Guo's notion of self-realization (自得zide). This is a conception of freedom that introduces a "dependence-based autonomy," in which freedom is something we achieve and realize through our connection to others. The notion that a subject is born with freedom-and that one can return to it by isolating oneself from others-would be a strange idea not just to Guo but to most Chinese philosophers. Rather, freedom is complex and frail, and only the kind of freedom that is collectively attained through radical dependence can be worth having. In sum, the book makes a new contribution to Chinese philosophical scholarship as well as philosophical debates on freedom.

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Brand: SUNY PRESS
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1438497466
Category: Books > Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Other Religions > Eastern Mystical Philosophy
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 April 2024
Listed Since: 03 October 2023

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SUNY PRESS Freedom's Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang's Zhuangzi (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)

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