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Acknowledgements | p. ix |
On reading Zhuangzi | p. 1 |
Can we understand Zhuangzi? | p. 1 |
What bothers the other? | p. 3 |
Is Daoist thought philosophy? | p. 5 |
The religious | p. 9 |
The figure of Zhuangzi | p. 11 |
Zhuangzi's fundamental figures of thought | p. 14 |
The view of the world | p. 14 |
Life against completion | p. 15 |
Human life | p. 17 |
The life of Heaven | p. 20 |
The Way | p. 22 |
Two kinds of transcendence | p. 24 |
Non-understanding | p. 27 |
The drive towards completion | p. 30 |
Technique negates the Way | p. 30 |
The Confucian view of technical action | p. 32 |
Totalitarianism and strategic thinking | p. 36 |
The metaphysics of action | p. 39 |
Form (eidos) and completion (cheng) | p. 43 |
Unraveling the drive towards completion | p. 47 |
Care for life | p. 47 |
From potentiality to actuality | p. 52 |
In-between Heaven and man | p. 57 |
The occurrence of the ordinary | p. 61 |
Saying the unsayable | p. 67 |
Indicative and logical discourses | p. 67 |
Saying and disputation | p. 70 |
The double-question | p. 71 |
Shifting signifiers | p. 72 |
The intended meaning | p. 74 |
Language in itself | p. 76 |
Impromptu words | p. 80 |
Bungled discourse | p. 85 |
Suddenly there is nothing | p. 85 |
Just now something is born | p. 89 |
Accept "this" for what it is | p. 94 |
Is Zhuangzi a Sophist? | p. 97 |
Zhuangzi and Socrates | p. 101 |
Ethics | p. 105 |
Confucian concern | p. 105 |
Mutilation | p. 109 |
Beyond the will to power | p. 113 |
The moral law | p. 117 |
The ethical subject | p. 120 |
On Zhuangzi's supposed naturalism | p. 124 |
Spiritual exercise | p. 126 |
Loss of self | p. 126 |
Emotions are like music from empty spaces | p. 130 |
Techniques of inner training | p. 132 |
Completion without lament | p. 137 |
To see the unique | p. 138 |
Glossary | p. 142 |
References | p. 149 |
Index | p. 156 |
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