Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism

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This book presents a distinctive interpretative framework that uncovers an early yangsheng reading of the Daodejing through the differences between its early phenomenological and the later metaphysical versions. It engages with current literature from West to East to make a rigorous and genuine contribution. * Robin Wang, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, USA * Thomas Michael offers a refreshing interpretation of early Daoism as a philosophy for living-well and the practice of nurturing life. He delves into Huang-Lao, Han dynasty Daoism, and the practices of the Daoist alchemist Ge Hong in the Wei dynasty. The book concludes with a comparative study of the Daodejing and the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger. * James D. Sellmann, Professor of Chinese Philosophy, University of Guam, Guam * [Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism] has a great deal to offer for Sinologists and philosophers alike. With meticulous and elegant analyses, Michael demonstrates that these fields of inquiry ... can significantly aid each other and thus us, readers of Chinese and cross-cultural histories of religions, in shaping a coherent view of this classic of religious and philosophical literature. * Religious Studies Review *