Daoist Resonances in Heidegger

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aesthetics
Asian philosophy
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Chinese philosophy
cross-cultural
Daoist
environment
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existentialism
Heidegger
non-being
nothingness
phenomenology
race
the Way

Product details

  • ISBN 9781350201071
  • Weight: 560g
  • Dimensions: 164 x 238mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Jun 2022
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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East Asian imagery resonates throughout Martin Heidegger’s writings. In this exploration of the connections between Daoism and his thought, an international team of scholars consider why the Daodejing and Zhuangzi were texts he returned to repeatedly and the extent Heidegger adhered to Daoism’s core doctrines.

They discuss how Daoist thought provided him with a new perspective, equipping him with images, concepts, and meanings that enabled him to continue his questioning of the nature of being. Exploring the environment, language, death, temporality, aesthetics, and race from the groundlessness of non-being, oneness, and the Way, they illustrate how these themes reverberate with ontological, spiritual, and epistemological potential.

A lesson in the art of Daoist and cross-cultural ways of thinking, this collection marks the first sustained analysis of the influence of classical Daoism on a major 20th-century German philosopher.

David Chai is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.