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1 online resource (157 p.) |
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Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies |
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Routledge explorations in environmental studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: early Daoist ethics and the philosophy of nature -- What is Daoism? An Initial Overview -- "Dao" and "Daoism" -- Transmissions of the dao between Religion and Philosophy -- Daoism as philosophy -- Philosophy as an examined way of life -- Daoist exemplars, models, and transformative strategies -- Daoism, environmental philosophy, and political ecology -- Daoist models and their ecological significance -- Toward a critical therapeutic ecology |
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Notes -- Chapter 2: Nourishing life, cultivating nature, and environmental philosophy -- Damaged life and nourishing life -- The problem of nourishing life: an overview -- Controversies over nourishing and augmenting life -- Early Daoist models of nourishing life -- Historical and philosophical considerations -- The ecological ethos of nourishing life in the Daodejing -- The paradox of nourishing life in the Zhuangzi -- Nourishing bodily form -- Reimagining a new Daoist ecological ethos -- Nourishing life and acknowledging death -- Daoism as ecological ethos and praxis |
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The shared body of life in Neo- Confucianism -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Wuwei, responsive attunement, and generative nature -- Figuring out how not to act -- Introduction -- Ruist conceptions of "non-action" -- Non-action and non-engagement as Legalist biopolitical strategies -- Encountering nature and caring for the myriad things -- Dao follows ziran -- Daoist ziran as a contemporary ecological example and model -- On the indifference and cruelty of nature -- The Daodejing: from morality to nurturing care -- Wuwei, responsive attunement, and a new Daoist ecology |
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Non-action, non-engagement, and responsive attunement -- Wang Bi's Laozi: is the sage indifferent or responsive? -- An ethos and culture of ecological responsive attunement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Emptying ecology: nothingness, language, and encountering things -- Enacting emptiness and simplicity to encounter nature -- Introduction -- The enactment of emptiness and responsiveness to things -- Fasting, forgetting, and becoming genuine in the Zhuangzi -- Undoing fixations and the freedom of nature in the Zhuangzi -- Unsaying the said with Zhuangzi |
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Wandering amidst things beyond being and use -- Free and ecological roaming in the immanence of natural occurrence -- The joy of fish -- Wang Bi and the deconstruction of concepts, images, and words -- Emptying fixations and the generative functioning of nothingness -- Wang Bi and the functioning of language -- Ways of speaking and wandering in the limitless beyond language -- Conclusion: reimagining ecology with Zhuangzi and Wang Bi -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Early Daoist biopolitics and a new Daoist political ecology -- Early Daoist biopolitics in context -- Introduction |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Legalist and Daoist biopolitical models of the sage-kings |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429678233 |
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0429678231 |
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