The butterfly as companion : meditations on the first three chapters of the Chuang Tzu

Author/Creator:: Wu, Kuang-ming
Publication/Creation:: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1990
Resource Type:: Book

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Full Title:: The butterfly as companion : meditations on the first three chapters of the Chuang Tzu / Kuang-ming Wu.
Series Titles:: SUNY series in religion and philosophy
SUNY series in religion and philosophy The butterfly as companion

Table of 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."
Language:: English
Language Note:: English
Physical Type/Description:: 1 online resource (xiv, 509 p. )
General Note:: Includes indexes.