Daoist Encounters with Phenomenology

David Chai is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Part 1. Precursory Encounters: Unearthing Fertile Seeds1. Daoism and Hegel on Painting the Invisible Spirit: To Color or Not? David Chai (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)2. Two Portrayals of Death in Light of the Views of Brentano and Early Daoism, Mary I. Bockover (Humboldt State University, USA)3. In the Light of Heaven before Sunrise: Zhuangzi and Nietzsche on Transperspectival Experience, Graham Parkes (University College Cork, Ireland and East China Normal University, China)Part 2. Early Encounters: Nourishing the Sprouts of Possibility4. The Pre-objective and the Primordial: Elements of a Phenomenological Reading of Zhuangzi, Kwok-Ying Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)5. Martin Buber’s Phenomenological Interpretation of the Daodejing, Eric S. Nelson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)6. Martin Buber’s Dao, Jason M. Wirth (Seattle University, USA)7. The Dao of Existence: Jaspers and Laozi, Mario Wenning (University of Macau, China)Part 3. Mature Encounters: A Forest of Ideas8. Heidegger and Daoism: A Dialogue on the Useless Way of Unnecessary Being, Bret W. Davis (Loyola University Maryland, USA)9. Heidegger and Zhuangzi: The Transformative Art of the Phenomenological Reduction, Patricia Huntington (Arizona State University, USA)10. The Reader’s Chopper: Finding Affinities from Gadamer to Zhuangzi on Reading, Sarah A. Mattice (University of North Florida, USA)11. Unknowing Silence in the Daodejingand Merleau-Ponty, Katrin Froese (University of Calgary, Canada)Part 4. A Most Urgent Encounter: Re-Rooting Our Futural Selves12. Grounding Phenomenology in the Daodejing: The Anthropocene, the Fourfold, and the Sage, Martin Schönfeld (University of South Florida, USA)Index

This book covers a lot of ground, and the participation of multiple scholars raises the bar. Bridging the gap between Asian and Western Philosophy, it will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.