The Problem of Authorship and the Project of Chinese Philosophy: Zhuang Zhou and the Zhuangzi between Sinology and Philosophy in the Western Academy

Jiang, Tao

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“…This polyvocal and open form evades interpretive closure (Gentz and Meyer 2015, Tan 2016), and makes it difficult to ascribe to the text any specific or explicitly political position. Its uncertain provenance and complex history of transmission makes it difficult to assign authorial intent and to align the text with the known political views of any historical figure (Chan 2002, Graham 2003, Lin 2003, Liu 1994, Fraser 1997, Jiang 2016, Klein 2011.…”

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Critique of Imperial Reason: Lessons from the Zhuangzi

Kwek

2019

Dao

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It has often been said that the Zhuangzi 莊子 advocates political abstention, and that its putative skepticism prevents it from contributing in any meaningful way to political thinking: at best the Zhuangzi espouses a sort of anarchism, at worst it is "the night in which all cows are black," a stance that one scholar has charged is ultimately immoral. This article tracks possible political allusions within the text, and, by reading these against details of social, political, and historical context, sheds light on another strand of the Zhuangzi-one that questions prevailing normative values because it is fiercely critical of scholarly complicity with violent imperial territorial consolidation.

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Critique of Imperial Reason: Lessons from the Zhuangzi

Kwek

2019

Dao

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“…For its part, philosophy is less interested in the original text, largely because the earliest manuscript editions demonstrate a dizzying array of textual variants, in addition to a plethora of other uncertainties concerning its form and content. Instead, philosophy is interested in the philosophically authentic text that is understood in terms of textual intent (see Jiang 2016). 3 The authentic text refers to the text of the Daodejing, in which the philosophical and other linguistic weaknesses found in earlier editions have been repaired, or even, from philosophy's point of view, restored; an example of this is seen in Liu Xiaogan's suggestion that Wang Bi brought the thought of the Daodejing to its "logical completion" (Liu 2014, p. 158).…”

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The Original Text of the Daodejing: Disentangling Versions and Recensions

Michael¹

2022

Religions

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The Daodejing is counted among the greatest works of world philosophy and literature, but it is a short work that is exceedingly difficult to comprehend. Among several reasons for this is that no one knows the actual words and form of its original text. Assessing the differences between any two editions of it is a simple task when they are laid next to each other, but it is not possible to lay any edition of the Daodejing next to its original text to assess their differences, because no one has ever seen the original text of the Daodejing, and no one knows its actual words and form. Approaching the original text is only made possible through its representations and reflections in later editions that we do possess, some of them transmitted and others excavated. Any possible access to the original text, to any degree whatsoever, is dependent on how these later editions are managed. Sinology manages them with the recension category whereas Laozi Studies manages them with the version category. This study examines, disentangles, and assesses the different ways that these two categories are used with the intended effect of revealing the original text of the Daodejing.

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Chong

2022

Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy

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The Problem of Authorship and the Project of Chinese Philosophy: Zhuang Zhou and the Zhuangzi between Sinology and Philosophy in the Western Academy

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Critique of Imperial Reason: Lessons from the Zhuangzi

Critique of Imperial Reason: Lessons from the Zhuangzi

The Original Text of the Daodejing: Disentangling Versions and Recensions

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