Daoist Resonances in Heidegger

East Asian imagery resonates throughout Martin Heidegger's writings. In this exploration of the connections between Daoism and his thought, an international team of scholars consider why the Daodejing and Zhuangzi were texts he returned to repeatedly and the extent Heidegger adhered to Daoism's core doctrines.

They discuss how Daoist thought provided him with a new perspective, equipping him with images, concepts, and meanings that enabled him to continue his questioning of the nature of being. Exploring the environment, language, death, temporality, aesthetics, and race from the groundlessness of non-being, oneness, and the Way, they illustrate how these themes reverberate with ontological, spiritual, and epistemological potential.

A lesson in the art of Daoist and cross-cultural ways of thinking, this collection marks the first sustained analysis of the influence of classical Daoism on a major 20th-century German philosopher.

Auteur

David Chai is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

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Introduction

Part 1: Revisiting Heidegger and Daoism

1. Thoughts on the Way: Being and Time via Laozi and Zhuangzi, Graham Parkes (*University of Vienna, Austria)*
2. Heidegger's Daoist Phenomenology, Jay Goulding (York University, Canada)
3. The Simple Onefold of Dao and Being: Reading Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Heidegger in Light of Interality, Geling Shang (Grand Valley State University, USA)

Part 2: Existence and the Arts

4. Dao of Death, Jason M. Wirth (**Seattle University, USA)
5. Thing and World in Laozi and Heidegger, Eric S. Nelson (**Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
6. Zhuangzi, Heidegger, and the Self-Revealing Being of Sculpture, David Chai (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Part 3: Language and Identity

7. Rivers to the East: Heidegger's Lectures on Hölderlin as Prolegomena for Daoist Engagements, Daniel Fried (University of Alberta, Canada)
8. Thinking Through Silence: (Non-) Language in Heidegger and Classical Daoism, Steven Burik (**Singapore Management University, Singapore)
9. The Politics of Uselessness: On Heidegger's Reading of the Zhuangzi, Fabian Heubel (**Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

10. "We have been Schooled by the Cabin haven't We?" Heidegger and Daoism in the Provinces, Mario Wenning (*Loyola University Andalusia, Spain)*

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