Beyond the Troubled Water of Shifei: From Disputation to Walking-Two-Roads in the Zhuangzi eBook

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Beyond the Troubled Water of Shifei
From Disputation to Walking-Two-Roads in the Zhuangzi
In recent decades, a growing concern in studies in Chinese intellectual history is that Chinese classics have been forced into systems of classification prevalent in Western philosophy and thus imperceptibly transformed into examples that echo Western philosophy. Lin Ma and Jaap van Brakel offer a methodology to counter this approach, and illustrate their method by carrying out a transcultural inquiry into the complexities involved in understanding shi and fei and their cognate phrases in the Warring States texts, the Zhuangzi in particular. The authors discuss important features of Zhuangzi’s stance with regard to language-meaning, knowledge-doubt, questioning, equalizing, and his well-known deconstruction of the discourse in ancient China on shifei. Ma and van Brakel suggest that shi and fei apply to both descriptive and prescriptive languages and do not presuppose any fact/value dichotomy, and thus cannot be translated as either true/false or right/wrong. Instead, shi and fei can be grasped in terms of a pre-philosophical notion of fitting. Ma and van Brakel also highlight Zhuangzi’s idea of “walking-two-roads” as the most significant component of his stance. In addition, they argue that all of Zhuangzi’s positive recommendations are presented in a language whose meaning is not fixed and that every stance he is committed to remains subject to fundamental questioning as a way of life.

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Beyond the Troubled Water of Shifei: From Disputation to Walking-Two-Roads in the Zhuangzi is written by Lin Ma; Jaap van Brakel and published by Suny Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Beyond the Troubled Water of Shifei are 9781438474847, 1438474849 and the print ISBNs are 9781438474823, 1438474822. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781438474830.