Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish / / ed. by Takahiro Nakajima, Roger T. Ames.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015
• MitwirkendeR: Ames, Roger T.,; Han, Xiaoqiang,; Hansen, Chad,; Hoffmann, Hans Peter,; Kuwako, Toshio,; Moeller, Hans-Georg,; Møllgaard, Eske Janus,; Nakajima, Takahiro,; Peng, Feng,; Perkins, Franklin,; Sham, Yat Shing,; Teng, Norman Y.,; Yukawa, Hideki,; Zhang, Longxi,
• HerausgeberIn: Ames, Roger T.,; Nakajima, Takahiro,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 5 b&w illustrations

The Zhuangzi is a deliciously protean text: it is concerned not only with personal realization, but also (albeit incidentally) with social and political order. In many ways the Zhuangzi established a unique literary and philosophical genre of its own, and while clearly the work of many hands, it is...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Zhuangzi: The Happy Fish
• 2. Yuzhile: The Joy of Fishes, or, The Play on Words
• 3. The Relatively Happy Fish
• 4. Zhuangzi's Notion of Transcendental Life
• 5. Knowledge and Happiness in the Debate over the Happiness of the Fish
• 6. The Relatively Happy Fish Revisited
• 7. Knowing the Joy of Fish: The Zhuangzi and Analytic Philosophy
• 8. Of Fish and Knowledge: On the Validity of Cross-Cultural Understanding
• 9. Zhuangzi and Theories of the Other
• 10. Of Fish and Men: Species Diff erence and the Strangeness of Being Human in the Zhuangzi
• 11. The Happy Fish of the Disputers
• 12. Fact and Experience: A Look at the Root of Philosophy from the Happy Fish Debate
• 13. Rambling without Destination On Daoist " You-ing" in the World
• 14. "Knowing" as the "Realizing of Happiness" Here, on the Bridge, over the River Hao
• Contributors
• Index