Dao and sign in history : Daoist arche-semiotics in ancient and medieval China / Daniel Fried.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fried, Daniel, 1973- author.

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Religious aspects--Taoism.

Language and languages.

Semiotics--Religious aspects--Taoism.

Semiotics.

Signs and symbols.

Semiotics--Religious aspects.

Taoism.

Physical Description:

xii, 321 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]

Summary:

"From its earliest origins in the Dao De Jing of Laozi, Daoism has been a known as a movement that is skeptical of the ability of language to fully express the truth. While many scholars have compared the earliest works of Daoism to language-skeptical movements in twentieth-century European philosophy and have debated to what degree early Daoism does or does not resemble these recent movements, Daniel Fried breaks new ground by examining a much broader array of Daoist materials from ancient and medieval China and showing how these works influenced ideas about language in medieval religion, literature, and politics. Through an extended comparison with a broad sample of European philosophical works, Dao and Sign in History explores how ideas about language grow out of a given historical moment and advances a larger argument about how philosophical and religious ideas cannot be divided into "content" and "context"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Defining "arche-semiotics"

Ways through language

Ways beyond language

Tracing the obscure

Traces of transcendence

Sign, translation, enlightenment

The arche-semiotic mind and the carving of dragons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781438471938

1438471939

OCLC:

1036738332