Dust jacket notes: "Western studies of Taoism generally have fallen into two classes. One is the formal academic study of the subject employing objectivizing methods of history, philology, anthropology, and the like. The other consists of less formal reflections on Taoism from the standpoint of one's own personal encounters, as in the writings of the nineteenth-century travelers and more recently thinkers such as Thomas Merton and John Blofeld. Professor Wu's Chuang Tzu: World Philosopher at Play is in a meritorious class by itself. Much the way Professor McKeon has presented Aristotle for the last generation, its aim is to present Chuang Tzu's Taoism as a contemporary cultural option as well as classic position. With both objectivizing academic tools and personal experience as important background elements, Professor Wu provides an interpretation of contemporary culture that takes its hermeneutic horizon from Chuang Tzu. Furthermore, he offers solutions which owe their main inspiration to Chuang Tzu. And these two acts of normative reflection - interpreting our culture and offering cultural solutions - provide Professor Wu's keys for his unique presentation of Chuang Tzu."

Chuang Tzu: World Philosopher at Play (Studies in Religion / American Academy of Religion)

Wu, Kuang-Ming

Crossroad Publishing

Thorough, serious, yet fun to read, this is a translation of the text and an exposition of the philosophy of Chuang Tzu the Taoist of ancient China.

The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang-Tzu (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

State University of New York Press

Chuang Tzu: World Philosopher at Play (Aar Studies in Religion)

Wu, Guangming

Religion & Spirituality

UNKNO

World problems are intercultural, requiring sensitivity to cultural integrity in order to resolve them. Wu Kuang-ming has been grappling with cultural clashes at their boundary for half a century, insisting that we must first let Chinese thinking be Chinese, not Western, leading thereby to a truly fruitful China-West and West-China interculture. Wu has been proposing how to do so in a dozen published volumes and beyond. China-West Interculture reports Wu's personal and academic journey on this matter, followed by fourteen international scholars' critical appreciations and Wu's grateful responses.

China-West Interculture: Toward the Philosophy of World Integration: Essays on Wu Kuang-Ming's Thinking (ACPA Series of Chinese and Comparative Philosophy)

Global Scholarly Publications

Our description of daily dilemmas beyond us makes us sense them as our secret Open Sesame to the Beyond quite beyond us to suffuse and support us. This book describes how nonsense in our daily living are dilemmas beyond our handling, which thereby makes us realise our nonsense is our access to the Beyond as deep Nonsense.

Nonsense: Cultural Mediations on the Beyond (World Philosophy)

Nova Science Pub Inc

Story-thinking is direct actuality-thinking; actuality is active and alive, never set or formal but free and reasonable. Actuality is things as they are alive, actively actualising themselves, birthing unceasing. They sound forth to resound, vibrate to inter-vibrate, tell to retell it, to reveal-R to express-E it. This "R to E" is not logically inferential, free of inferential error. Such R-to-E process dialogically transmits across an instant as "story-thinking." Story-thinking primordially hears of actuality to story-express it. Thus, actuality sounds itself -- tells its story -- to a sensitive hearer who retells the story-actual in her own resonance, and her vibration is "storytelling." Actuality tells and is heard, and storytelling comes about. Story-thinking begins at storytelling to continue storytelling, this way.

Story-Thinking: Cultural Meditations (World Philosophy)

Building bridges between Asian and Western philosophies, Kuang-ming Wu provides a novel approach to the "self-other" issue, casting it in terms of togetherness. On the "Logic" of Togetherness is a natural sequel to On Chinese Body Thinking (Brill, 1997). It is an essay on a cultural hermeneutics of togetherness, and of the homo-ecological community of differences, cultural and otherwise. "Togetherness" is the concrete primal "that" by which we explain and analyze concrete things and situations: an intrinsic interactive principle of integrity, growth, reflection, and behavior. In five sections, this book describes cultural, personal, argumentative, religious and philosophical situations of togetherness, thus providing an imaginative examination of its varieties.

On the "Logic" of Togetherness: A Cultural Hermeneutic (Philosophy of History & Culture)

Brill Academic Pub

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