Effortless action : Wu-wei as conceptual metaphor and spiritual ideal in early China /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Slingerland, Edward, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Wu-wei as conceptual metaphor
  • At ease in virtue: Wu-wei in the Analects
  • So-of-itself: Wu-wei in the Laozi
  • New technologies of the self: Wu-wei in the "inner training" and the Mohist rejection of Wu-wei
  • Cultivating the sprouts: Wu-wei in the Mencius
  • The tenuous self: Wu-wei in the Zhuangzi
  • Straightening the warped wood: Wu-wei in the Xunzi
  • Appendix 1: The "many-Dao theory"
  • Appendix 2: Textual issues concerning the Analects
  • Appendix 3: Textual issues concerning the Laozi
  • Appendix 4: Textual issues concerning the Zhuangzi.