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Language, ontology, and political philosophy in China : Wang Bi's scholarly exploration of the dark (xuanxue) / Rudolf G. Wagner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagner, Rudolf G.
- Series:
- SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Chinese--221 B.C.-960 A.D.
- Philosophy, Chinese.
- Metaphysics.
- Wang, Bi, 226-249.
- Wang, Bi.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 261 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Wang Bi's scholarly exploration of the dark (xuanxue)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1 Discerning the That-by-Which: The Language of the Laozi and the Lunyu 5
- A Plea for a History of Understanding 5
- The Consensus: The Ineffability of the Sage's Thinking 7
- The Radical Position 10
- Developing Reading Strategies 15
- The Discussion about Language and the Thinking of the Sage in Wei 44
- The Structural Contradiction of the Confucius Texts: Talking about That-Which-Is-Dark 56
- The Logical Deduction of the Unnameability of That-by-Which the Ten Thousand Kinds of Entities Are 57
- The Deduction of the Possibility of Limited but Sufficiently Grounded Propositions about That-by-Which the Ten Thousand Kinds of Entities Are 60
- Traces of the That-by-Which Found by the Confucius Texts within the Structures of Discernible Entities: Antinomy and Negation 62
- Grasping Aspects of the That-by-Which 69
- An Explanation of the Images [Xiang of the Zhouyi] 80
- 2 Wang Bi's Ontology 83
- The Framework of Analysis 83
- Wang Bi's Inquiry into the That-by-Which 88
- Wang Bi's Approach 91
- The Binary Structural Organization of Entities 98
- The Order of the Ten Thousand Kinds of Entities 108
- The One and the Many 121
- The Dao 125
- The Dark 144
- 3 Wang Bi's Political Philosophy 148
- The Actual and Perpetual Crisis of Human Society 148
- The Causes of the Crisis 153
- Operating the Return: The Sage 177
- Sagely Politics as Public Performance 199
- Wang Bi's Philosophy: An Ideology? 213.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791453316
- 0791453324
- OCLC:
- 49942836
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