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Language, Ontology, and Political Philosophy in China: Wang Bi's Scholarly Exploration of the Dark (Xuanxue)

Language, Ontology, and Political Philosophy in China: Wang Bi's Scholarly Exploration of the Dark (Xuanxue)

Wagner, Rudolf G.

Paperback

Series: Suny Chinese Philosophy and Culture

PhilosophyGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 0791453324
ISBN13: 9780791453322
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 16 2003
Pages: 269
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.52 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Explores the thought of Wang Bi, the third-century Chinese philosopher who made brilliant, innovative contributions in an era when traditional intellectual institutions and orthodoxies had collapsed.

With the collapse of the Han dynasty in 220 C.E., an entire system of state and intellectual organization fell apart. The brilliant Wang Bi and his generation of young scholars grew up in a no-man's land without teachers and orthodoxy. Defying the established school divisions, they set out on a vigorous and daring new philosophical inquiry which came to be known as Xuanxue, the Scholarly Exploration of the Dark. They found subtle pointers in the Laozi, the Book of Changes, and the Analects of Confucius about the inequity of language and the ensuing need to proceed by subtle indications that ultimately led to a philosophy of Being.

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