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Chuang-tzu for Spiritual Transformation : An Analysis of the Inner Chapters SUNY Series in Philosophy
author
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Allinson, Robert E.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0887069673
print isbn13
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9780887069673
ebook isbn13
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9780585054674
language
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English
subject
Chuang-tzu.--Nan-hua ching.
publication date
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1989
lcc
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BL1900.C576A45 1989eb
ddc
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299/.51482
subject
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Chuang-tzu.--Nan-hua ching.
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Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation
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SUNY Series in Philosophy
Robert Cummings Neville, Editor
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Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation
An Analysis of the Inner Chapters
ROBERT E. ALLINSON
State University of New York Press
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Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1989 State University of New York
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Allinson, Robert E., 1942 Chuang-Tzu for spiritual transformation: an analysis of the inner chapters / Robert E. Allinson. p. cm.(SUNY series in philosophy) Includes index. ISBN 0-88706-967-3. ISBN 0-88706-969-X (pbk.) 1. Chuang-tzu. Nan-hua ching. I. Title BL1900.C576A45 1989 299.51482dc1988-19974 CIP
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Contents
Foreword
1
Preface
3
Introduction
6
1. On the Chirping of Birds
14
2. Myths and Monsters: On the Art of Metaphor
23
3. The Content of the Myth
40
4. The Monster as Metaphor
51
5. The Beautiful as Metaphor: The Symbol of Metamorphosis
71
6. The Butterfly Dream: The Case for Internal Textual Transformation
78
7. The Butterfly Dream: The Case for External Textual Transformation
96
8. The Question of Relativism
111
9. The Origin of the Relativistic Thesis
127
10. The Paradox of Self-Transformation
143
11. The Case of Meng-sun
156
12. The Goose That Cackled
167
Notes
173
Index
201
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I dedicate this book to my wife, Irn Grafton Allinson, who originally urged me to write this book and has been a source of inspiration all along the way.
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Foreword
Studies of Chuang Tzu in English have reached gratifying standards of quality and quantity. Two recent books by Wu Kuang-ming and an issue of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy (13/4) are evidence of this. The present outstanding volume by Robert Allinson builds on those studies and initiates a new direction.
Professor Allinson builds on the earlier work, especially that of Wu, by accepting the interpretation that Chuang Tzu used language metaphorically and elliptically to evoke an existential response, a response that cannot be commanded by direct imperatives or elicited by plain normative description. His new direction for understanding Chuang Tzu is his comprehensive and detailed argument that Chuang Tzu was advocating an ideal of sageliness. Whereas many interpreters have claimed that Chuang Tzu used his metaphorical language to defend a relativism, Allinson shows with convincing mastery that Chuang Tzu had a position, namely, the importance of achieving the ideal of sageliness.
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