The Tao of the West Western transformations of Taoist thought /
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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Sommario:
- Preface
- 1. 'The way that can be told': introduction
- 2. 'The meaning is not the meaning': on the nature of Daoism
- 3. 'Cramped scholars': Western interpretations of Daoism
- 4. 'The Great Clod': Daoist natural philosophy
- 5. 'Going ramblin without destination': moral explorations
- 6. 'The transformation of things': the alchemy of life, sex and health
- 7. 'The Way is incommunicable': transcendence
- 8. 'The twitter of birds': philosophical themes
- 9. 'Journey to the West': by way of concluding
- Appendix I: Chinese dynastic chronology
- Appendix II. Wade-Giles/Pinyin conversion table
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Name index
- Subject index.