In the Shadows of the Dao
Laozi, the Sage, and the Daodejing
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 2015
332 pages
978-1-4384-5899-1 (ISBN)
Description
Challenges standard views of the origins of the Daodejing, revealing the work's roots in a tradition of physical cultivation.
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English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
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978-1-4384-5899-1 (9781438458991)
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Thomas Michael specializes in early Chinese religion, philosophy, and shamanism, and is the author of The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse, also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Reading the Daodejing Synthetically
Orientations
Conventions
Shadows
On the Early Daoism Label
2. Modern Scholarship on the Daodejing
Religious and Philosophical Approaches to the Daodejing
Modern Western Approaches to the Daodejing
Modern Chinese Approaches to the Daodejing
3. Traditions of Reading the Daodejing
Daojia, Daojiao, and Early Daoism
The Role of Commentary in the Daodejing
The Heshang Gong Commentary
The Xiang'er Commentary
The Wang Bi Commentary
Three Commentaries in Comparison
4. The Daos of Laozi and Confucius
Records of the Interview
Glimpses into the Dao of Antiquity
The Fault Line
Two Disciplines of the Body
Laozi and Confucius Revisited
5. Early Daoism, Yangsheng, and the Daodejing
The Hiddenness of Early Daoism
A Separate History
Orality and the Daodejing
Early Daoism and Yangsheng
Two Master Traditions and a Third
Yangsheng and the Daodejing
6. The Sage and the World
Early Chinese Archetypes: the Sage, the King, and the General
The Benefits of the Sage
Qi: The Stuff of Life
De: Circulation Is Not Always Virtuous
De in Action
7. The Sage and the Project
The Death-World
Projects
The Great Project of the World
Salvation
8. The Sage and Bad Knowledge
A Confucian Study Break
Knowledge and Yangsheng Sequences
Brightness and Yangsheng Sequences
Knowledge Is a Sickness
The Question of Early Daoism Revisited
9. The Sage and Good Knowledge
The Second-Order Harmony
Yangsheng and the Knowledge of the Sage
Appendix: The Daodejing
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preface
1. Reading the Daodejing Synthetically
Orientations
Conventions
Shadows
On the Early Daoism Label
2. Modern Scholarship on the Daodejing
Religious and Philosophical Approaches to the Daodejing
Modern Western Approaches to the Daodejing
Modern Chinese Approaches to the Daodejing
3. Traditions of Reading the Daodejing
Daojia, Daojiao, and Early Daoism
The Role of Commentary in the Daodejing
The Heshang Gong Commentary
The Xiang'er Commentary
The Wang Bi Commentary
Three Commentaries in Comparison
4. The Daos of Laozi and Confucius
Records of the Interview
Glimpses into the Dao of Antiquity
The Fault Line
Two Disciplines of the Body
Laozi and Confucius Revisited
5. Early Daoism, Yangsheng, and the Daodejing
The Hiddenness of Early Daoism
A Separate History
Orality and the Daodejing
Early Daoism and Yangsheng
Two Master Traditions and a Third
Yangsheng and the Daodejing
6. The Sage and the World
Early Chinese Archetypes: the Sage, the King, and the General
The Benefits of the Sage
Qi: The Stuff of Life
De: Circulation Is Not Always Virtuous
De in Action
7. The Sage and the Project
The Death-World
Projects
The Great Project of the World
Salvation
8. The Sage and Bad Knowledge
A Confucian Study Break
Knowledge and Yangsheng Sequences
Brightness and Yangsheng Sequences
Knowledge Is a Sickness
The Question of Early Daoism Revisited
9. The Sage and Good Knowledge
The Second-Order Harmony
Yangsheng and the Knowledge of the Sage
Appendix: The Daodejing
Notes
Bibliography
Index
