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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.
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.
Price: $163.00
Pages: 222
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Humanities in China Library
Publication Date:
28 January 2016
ISBN: 9789004310223
Format: Hardcover
Chen Guying, Master (1963), National Taiwan University. Chen is a professor at Beijing University (Beida) since 2011 for Chinese Philosophy. He has published translations, articles and monogrpahs on Daoism, especially the Laozi and Zhuangzi, as well as on Nietzsche and the Book of changes (Yijing), Main works are The tragic philosopher Nietzsche《悲剧哲学家尼采》, New arguments on Laozi and Zhuangzi《老庄新论》, Yizhuan and the thoughts of Daoism《易传与道家思想》, Daoism construction of Zhouyi Studies《道家易学建构》.
Dominique Hertzer, Ph.D. (1993, LMU Munich) and PhD (2005, University of Witten Herdecke). She lectures at LMU Munich and the Univeristy of Göttingen on Daoism and Chinese Medicine. She is also working as an TCM therapist. She has published articles, translations, and monographs on the Mawangdui Yijing, Daoism and Chinese Medicine, including the work “The Medical Notion of the Psyche as an Expression of Philosophical Thought: China and the Occident.”
Dominique Hertzer, Ph.D. (1993, LMU Munich) and PhD (2005, University of Witten Herdecke). She lectures at LMU Munich and the Univeristy of Göttingen on Daoism and Chinese Medicine. She is also working as an TCM therapist. She has published articles, translations, and monographs on the Mawangdui Yijing, Daoism and Chinese Medicine, including the work “The Medical Notion of the Psyche as an Expression of Philosophical Thought: China and the Occident.”