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The butterfly as companion : meditations on the first three chapters of the Chuang Tzu / Kuang-ming Wu.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in religion and philosophyPublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1990.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 509 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585089221
  • 9780585089225
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Butterfly as companion.DDC classification:
  • 299/.51482 19
LOC classification:
  • BL1900.C576 W793 1990eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue: Companion to the butterfly -- Preliminary meditations -- Invitation by a butterfly -- Why companion, not commentary -- Conversation with a roadside skull -- The poetic Chuang Tzu -- Chapter 1: Hsiao Yao Yu: soaring -- and roaming -- The Kuo Hsiang text -- Translation with glosses -- Meditation -- three readings -- The stories -- Roaming, laughing -- A close look -- Chapter 2: Ch'i Wu Lun: things, theories -- sorting themselves out -- The Kuo Hsiang text -- Translation with glosses -- Meditations -- four readings -- Survey -- A detailed look -- What all this means -- Philosophy and "things even-ing themselves out" -- Chapter 3: Yang Sheng Chu: nourishing life -- its inner principle -- The Kuo Hsiang text -- Translation with glosses -- Meditations -- three readings -- Coherence and interrelations -- Segments and words -- Our understanding of the message -- Epilogue: The butterfly as companion -- Inconclusive meditations -- Meaning -- Irony -- Play -- "Companion."
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Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographies references (pages 451-458).

Print version record.

Prologue: Companion to the butterfly -- Preliminary meditations -- Invitation by a butterfly -- Why companion, not commentary -- Conversation with a roadside skull -- The poetic Chuang Tzu -- Chapter 1: Hsiao Yao Yu: soaring -- and roaming -- The Kuo Hsiang text -- Translation with glosses -- Meditation -- three readings -- The stories -- Roaming, laughing -- A close look -- Chapter 2: Ch'i Wu Lun: things, theories -- sorting themselves out -- The Kuo Hsiang text -- Translation with glosses -- Meditations -- four readings -- Survey -- A detailed look -- What all this means -- Philosophy and "things even-ing themselves out" -- Chapter 3: Yang Sheng Chu: nourishing life -- its inner principle -- The Kuo Hsiang text -- Translation with glosses -- Meditations -- three readings -- Coherence and interrelations -- Segments and words -- Our understanding of the message -- Epilogue: The butterfly as companion -- Inconclusive meditations -- Meaning -- Irony -- Play -- "Companion."

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