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Genuine Pretending

Hardcover • 2017 • English

Genuine Pretending

By Hans-Georg Moeller

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Genuine Pretending is an innovative and comprehensive new reading of the Zhuangzi that highlights the critical and therapeutic functions of satire and humor. Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D'Ambrosio show how this Daoist classic, contrary to contemporary philosophical readings, distances itself from the pursuit of authenticity and subverts the dominant Confucianism of its time through satirical allegories and ironical reflections. With humor and parody, the Zhuangzi exposes the Confucian demand...Show more

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ISBN

9780231183987

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

Genuine Pretending

Format

Hardcover

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