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Liberation as Affirmation: The Religiosity of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche

Liberation as Affirmation: The Religiosity of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche

Shang, Ge Ling

Paperback

Series: Suny Chinese Philosophy and Culture

PhilosophyTaoism

ISBN10: 079146668X
ISBN13: 9780791466681
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 1 2007
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.94 Depth: 9.08
Language: English

Uses the concept of religiosity to challenge traditional views of Nietzsche and Zhuangzi as nihilistic and anti-religious.

In this book, author Ge Ling Shang provides a systematic comparison of original texts by Zhuangzi (fourth century BCE) and Nietzsche (1846-1900), under the rubric of religiosity, to challenge those who have customarily relegated both thinkers to relativism, nihilism, escapism, pessimism, or anti-religion. Shang closely examines Zhuangzi's and Nietzsche's respective critiques of metaphysics, morals, language, knowledge, and humanity in general and proposes a conception of the philosophical outlooks of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche as complementary. In the creative and vital spirit of Nietzsche, as in the tranquil and inward spirit of Zhuangzi, Shang argues that a surprisingly similar vision and aspiration toward human liberation and freedom exists-one in which spiritual transformation is possible by religiously affirming life in this world as sacred and divine.

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