Contents

Conversion Table

PART ONE Introduction

1 Chuang-tzŭ and the origins of Taoism

3 Rejection of logic

4 Heaven and man

5 The unifying vision

6 Death and mutilation

8 The book Chuang-tzŭ and the problems of translation

Finding List for the Chinese text

PART TWO The writings of Chuang-tzŭ: the Inner chapters (chapters 1–7) of Chuang-tzŭ and passages related to the Inner chapters

1 Going rambling without a destination (Chuang-tzŭ, chapter 1)

2 The sorting which evens things out (chapter 2)

3 What matters in the nurture of life (chapter 3)

4 Worldly business among men (chapter 4)

5 The signs of fullness of Power (chapter 5)

6 The teacher who is the ultimate ancestor (chapter 6)

7 Responding to the Emperors and Kings (chapter 7)

8 Passages related to the Inner chapters

PART THREE A ‘School of Chuang-tzŭ’ selection

1 Stories about Chuang-tzŭ

2 The dialogues of Confucius and Old Tan

3 The advantages of spontaneity

4 Rationalising the Way: the ‘Great Man’

5 Irrationalising the Way: ‘Knowledge roams north’

6 Utopia and the decline of government (‘Menders of nature’, chapter 16)

7 The cult of immortality

8 ‘The essentials of our nature and destiny’

2 Self-alienation

3 Down with technology!

4 It isn’t his fault, it’s society

10 Miscellaneous

PART FOUR The essays of the Primitivist and episodes related to them

1 Webbed toes (Chuang-tzŭ, chapter 8)

2 Horses’ hooves (chapter 9)

3 Rifling trunks (chapter 10)

4 Keep it in place and within bounds (chapter 11, introduction)

5 Episodes related to the Primitivist essays

PART FIVE The Yangist miscellany

1 Yielding the throne (Chuang-tzŭ, chapter 28)

2 Robber Chih (chapter 29)

3 The discourse on swords (chapter 30)

4 The old fisherman (chapter 31)

PART SIX The Syncretist writings

1 The Way of Heaven (Chuang-tzŭ, chapter 13, introduction)

2 Finicky notions (chapter 15)

3 Syncretist fragments

4 Three rhapsodies on the way

5 Below in the empire (chapter 33)

List of Characters

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