Introduction to Daoist Thought

<p>This is the first work available in English which addresses Zhuangzi’s thought as a whole. It presents an interpretation of the Zhuangzi a book in thirty-three chapters that is the most important collection of Daoist texts in early China. </p><p>The author introduces a complex reading that shows the unity of Zhuangzi’s thought in particular in his views of action language and ethics. By addressing methodological questions that arise in reading Zhuangzi a hermeneutics is developed which makes understanding Zhuangzi’s religious thought possible. </p><p>A theoretical contribution to comparative philosophy and the cross-cultural study of religious traditions the book serves as an introduction to Daoism for graduate students in religion philosophy and East Asian Studies.</p>