A wide-ranging exploration of traditional Chinese views of mortality.
Amy Olberding is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. Philip J. Ivanhoe is Reader-Professor of Philosophy at the City University of Hong Kong. His many books include Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi (coedited with Mark Csikszentmihalyi) and Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in. the Zhuangzi (coedited with Paul Kjellberg), both also published by SUNY press.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
p. 1
Preparation for the Afterlife in Ancient China
p. 13
Ascend to Heaven or Stay in the Tomb? Paintings in Mawangdui Tomb 1 and the Virtual Ritual of Revival in Second-Century B.C.E. China
p. 37
Concepts of Death and the Afterlife Reflected in Newly Discovered Tomb Objects and Texts from Han China
p. 85
War, Death, and Ancient Chinese Cosmology: Thinking through the Thickness of Culture
p. 117
Death and Dying in the Analects
p. 137
I Know Not ōSeemsö: Grief for Parents in the Analects
p. 153
Allotment and Death in Early China
p. 177
Death in the Zhuangzi: Mind, Nature, and the Art of Forgetting
p. 191
Sages, the Past, and the Dead: Death in the Huainanzi
p. 225
Linji and William James on Mortality: Two Visions of Pragmatism
p. 249
Death as the Ultimate Concern in the Neo-Confucian Tradition: Wang Yangming's Followers as an Example
p. 271
List of Contributors
p. 297
Index
p. 301
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