The Penumbra Unbound
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The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang

The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang

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The Penumbra Unbound is the first English language book-length study of the Neo-Taoist thinker Guo Xiang (d. 312 C.E.), commentator on the classic Taoist text, the Zhuangzi. The author explores Guo's philosophy of freedom and spontaneity, explains its coherence and importance, and shows its influence on later Chinese philosophy, particularly Chan Buddhism. The implications of his thought on freedom versus determinism are also considered in comparison to several positions advanced in the history of Western philosophy, notably those of Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer, Fichte, and Hegel. Guo's thought reinterprets the classical pronouncements about the Tao so that it in no way signifies any kind of metaphysical absolute underlying appearances, but rather means literally "nothing." This absence of anything beyond appearances is the first premise in Guo's development of a theory of radical freedom, one in which all phenomenal things are "self-so," creating and transforming themselves without depending on any justification beyond their own temporary being.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments PART I Introduction The Classical Chinese Philosophical Background An Overview of Guo Xiang's Philosophical Project The Problem of Spontaneity and Morality in Earlier Xuanxue Guo's Solution:The Image of Traces The Dangers of Traces PART II Interactivity Without Traces: "Vanishing (Into) Things" The Unification of Independence and Interdependence PART III Lone-Transformation 99 The Unity of Activity and Nonactivity APPENDIX A Guo Xiang's Use of the Term Xing: The Inherency of Change and the Confluence of Chance, Freedom, and Necessity in the Notion of the Self-So APPENDIX B Comparative Notes on Freedom and Determinism Notes Bibliography Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791456613
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 196
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 227 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0791456617
  • Publisher Date: 18 Mar 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang
  • Width: 152 mm


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