Hans-Georg Möller
Introduction
I. China
Deborah Sommer
The Ji Self in Early Chinese Texts
Richard John Lynn
Concepts of Self and Identity in the Zhuangzi:
New Translations of Key Passages
Paul D'Ambrosio
The Role of a Pretending Tree:
Hermits, Social Constructs, and the 'Self' in the Zhuangzi
Hans-Rudolf Kantor
Identity and Transformation in the Chinese Mahāyāna Traditions
II. Europe
S.J. McGrath
The Dissociated Self
Brendan Moran
'Weltperson' in Salomo Friedlaender's Schöpferische Indifferenz
III. Comparative Case Studies
Jason Dockstader
Monism in Spinoza and Daoism
Hans Skott-Myhre
Who Are We to Become If We Are Not This:
Spinoza's Substance and the Dao of Deleuze's Desire
Andrew Whitehead
Equating Unequal Things
Karl-Heinz Pohl
Who is Who? Zhuangzi and the Dead Man in Lu Xun's and Enzensberger's Rewritings of Zhuangzi
Lorraine Markotic
The Seized Subject in Badiou's Ethics and Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
IV. Alternative Paradigms
Günter Wohlfart
EGOD: The Death of the Ego
John C. Maraldo
Personal Autonomy: An Alternative View
Rolf Trauzettel
Two Mythic Paradigms of the Constitution of Personhood
Notes on the Editors
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