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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Note on the Texts | p. xi |
Early Daoism and Metaphysics | p. 1 |
Early Daoism and Cosmogony | p. 7 |
Before the World | p. 7 |
The Xicizhuan: An Alternative Cosmogony of the Confucian Tradition | p. 13 |
Abyssal Waters | p. 15 |
Placental Waters | p. 22 |
Early Daoism and Cosmology | p. 33 |
The Harmonious World | p. 33 |
Was There an Early Daoist Cosmology before the Laozi? | p. 35 |
The Hidden Sage Is Not a Public King | p. 40 |
Why Politics and Religion Don't Mix; or Do They? | p. 50 |
The World Was Born, Not Made | p. 55 |
Sages Live the Adventure | p. 59 |
Early Daoism and Ontology | p. 69 |
The Fractured World | p. 69 |
Splitting Binary Differences: The Ontological Vision of the Laozi | p. 71 |
Human Labor Gets a Turn: The Ontological Vision of the Qiwulun | p. 79 |
Early Daoism and Soteriology | p. 95 |
The Healed World | p. 95 |
The Neiye Describes the Body as Jing | p. 101 |
The Laozi Describes the Newborn Body | p. 108 |
The Zhuangzi Describes the Body as Heaven | p. 115 |
The Huainanzi Describes the Correlative Body | p. 128 |
Early Daoism and Modernity | p. 143 |
Notes | p. 151 |
Bibliography | p. 163 |
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