Rudolf G. Wagner is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of several books, including The Craft of a Chinese Commentator: Wang Bi on the Laozi, also published by SUNY Press.
Preface
vii
Introduction
1
(4)
Discerning the That-by-Which: The Language of the Laozi and the Lunyu
5
(78)
A Plea for a History of Understanding
5
(2)
The Consensus: The Ineffability of the Sage's Thinking
7
(3)
The Radical Position
10
(5)
Developing Reading Strategies
15
(29)
The Discussion about Language and the Thinking of the Sage in Wei
44
(12)
The Structural Contradiction of the Confucius Texts: Talking about That-Which-Is-Dark
56
(1)
The Logical Deduction of the Unnameability of That-by-Which the Ten Thousand Kinds of Entities Are
57
(3)
The Deduction of the Possibility of Limited but Sufficiently Grounded Propositions about That-by-Which the Ten Thousand Kinds of Entities Are
60
(2)
Traces of the That-by-Which Found by the Confucius Texts within the Structures of Discernible Entities: Antinomy and Negation
62
(7)
Grasping Aspects of the That-by-Which
69
(11)
An Explanation of the Images [Xiang of the Zhouyi]
80
(3)
Wang Bi's Ontology
83
(65)
The Framework of Analysis
83
(5)
Wang Bi's Inquiry into the That-by-Which
88
(3)
Wang Bi's Approach
91
(7)
The Binary Structural Organization of Entities
98
(10)
The Order of the Ten Thousand Kinds of Entities
108
(13)
The One and the Many
121
(4)
The Dao
125
(19)
The Dark
144
(4)
Wang Bi's Political Philosophy
148
(69)
The Actual and Perpetual Crisis of Human Society
148
(5)
The Causes of the Crisis
153
(24)
Operating the Return: The Sage
177
(22)
Sagely Politics as Public Performance
199
(14)
Wang Bi's Philosophy: An Ideology?
213
(4)
Notes
217
(26)
Bibliography
243
(12)
Index
255
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