Tranquility Without Bound - The Aesthetic Generation of Laozi and Zhuangzi's Life Realm

Author: Wang Jianjiang
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: This book, based on a critical inheritance of the research achievements of Neo-Confucianism, Neo-Taoism, and other aestheticians on the realm of life, examines the realm of life of Laozi and Zhuangzi. It discovers the generative aesthetics behind the seemingly self-contradictory ideas of Laozi and Zhuangzi, reveals the mechanism by which the realm of life transitions into an aesthetic realm, thereby providing a typical ideological thread for the aesthetic generation of the realm of life. Furthermore, it opens up new horizons for the study of the history of Chinese aesthetics, literature, and art.