Authority without Authenticity: The Zhuangzi's Genuine Pretending as Socio-Political Strategy

In this paper, we present a socio-political reading of the Zhuangzi based in part on a brief review of contemporary Chinese scholarship on the text. We will argue that the approach to dealing with authority in the Zhuangzi can be summarized by the phrase “externally transforming without transforming...

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Authors: D'Ambrosio, Paul (Author) ; Möller, Hans-Georg 1964- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 12, Pages: 1-11
Further subjects:B Authenticity
B Zhuangzi
B Daoism
B Authority
B genuine pretending
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