The Philosophy of Life
ISBN: 9789004310230
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Multilingualism and literature; Multilingualism and literature; Translating and interpreting; Translating and interpreting;

Chen Guying, one of the leading scholars on Daoism in contemporary China, provides in his book The Philosophy of Life, A New Reading of the Zhuangzi a detailed analysis and a unique interpretation of Zhuangzi's Inner, Outer and Miscellaneous chapters.

Unlike many other Chinese scholars Chen does not focus on a philological, but on a philosophical reading of the Zhuangzi highlighting the main topics of self-cultivation, aesthetics, and epistemology. Chen's perspectives on the Zhuangzi range from the historical background of the Warring States Period to his own personal (political) experience. Since Chen is also a specialist on Nietzsche, he elaborates Zhuangzi's philosophy of life and the idea of regulating one's heart by drawing a parallel to Nietzsche's perspectivism.


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