Liberation As Affirmation: The Religiosity of Zhuangzi And Nietzsche

Liberation As Affirmation: The Religiosity of Zhuangzi And Nietzsche

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In this book, author Ge Ling Shang provides a systematic comparison of original texts by Zhuangzi (fourth century BCE) and Nietzsche (1846–1900), under the rubric of religiosity, to challenge those who have customarily relegated both thinkers to relativism, nihilism, escapism, pessimism, or anti-religion. Shang closely examines Zhuangzi’s and Nietzsche’s respective critiques of metaphysics, morals, language, knowledge, and humanity in general and proposes a conception of the philosophical outlooks of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche as complementary. In the creative and vital spirit of Nietzsche, as in the tranquil and inward spirit of Zhuangzi, Shang argues that a surprisingly similar vision and aspiration toward human liberation and freedom exists—one in which spiritual transformation is possible by religiously affirming life in this world as sacred and divine.

ISBN

978-0791466674

Publication Date

2006

Publisher

State University of New York Press

City

Albany, NY

Liberation As Affirmation: The Religiosity of Zhuangzi And Nietzsche

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