The butterfly as companion : meditations on the first three chapters of the Chuang Tzu /
"Chuang Tzu's first three chapters are arranged into free verse (in Chinese, in the original word order) and translated, nearly word-for-word, with extensive critical glosses vis-a-vis over fifty Chinese, Japanese, and Western commentators. The exegetical, philosophical, and contemporary i...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
c1990.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in religion and philosophy
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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."