Description: Further DetailsTitle: Genuine PretendingCondition: NewEAN: 9780231183994ISBN: 9780231183994Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 17/10/2017Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Hans-Georg Moeller, Paul J. D'AmbrosioLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: On the Philosophy of the ZhuangziISBN-10: 0231183992Description: 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 to commit to socially constructed norms as pretense and hypocrisy. The Confucian pursuit of sincerity establishes exemplary models that one is supposed to emulate. In contrast, the Zhuangzi parodies such venerated representations of wisdom and deconstructs the very notion of sagehood. Instead, it urges a playful, skillful, and unattached engagement with socially mandated duties and obligations. The Zhuangzi expounds the Daoist art of what Moeller and D'Ambrosio call "genuine pretending": the paradoxical skill of not only surviving but thriving by enacting social roles without being tricked into submitting to them or letting them define one's identity.A provocative rereading of a Chinese philosophical classic, Genuine Pretending also suggests the value of a Daoist outlook today as a way of seeking existential sanity in an age of mass media's paradoxical quest for originality.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Genuine Pretending
Publication Name: Genuine Pretending
Title: Genuine Pretending
EAN: 9780231183994
ISBN: 9780231183994
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Year: 2017
Release Date: 17/10/2017
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Author: Paul J. D'Ambrosio
Language: English
Subtitle: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi
ISBN-10: 0231183992
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Subject: Literary Criticism
