{"product_id":"liberation-as-affirmation-ge-ling-shang-9780791466681","title":"Liberation as Affirmation: The Religiosity of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUses the concept of religiosity to challenge traditional views of Nietzsche and Zhuangzi as nihilistic and anti-religious.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, author Ge Ling Shang provides a systematic comparison of original texts by Zhuangzi (fourth century BCE) and Nietzsche (1846-1900), under the rubric of religiosity, to challenge those who have customarily relegated both thinkers to relativism, nihilism, escapism, pessimism, or anti-religion. Shang closely examines Zhuangzi's and Nietzsche's respective critiques of metaphysics, morals, language, knowledge, and humanity in general and proposes a conception of the philosophical outlooks of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche as complementary. In the creative and vital spirit of Nietzsche, as in the tranquil and inward spirit of Zhuangzi, Shang argues that a surprisingly similar vision and aspiration toward human liberation and freedom exists-one in which spiritual transformation is possible by religiously affirming life in this world as sacred and divine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ge Ling Shang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 079146668X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791466681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 5.94w x 0.47d","brand":"Ge Ling Shang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086863839487,"sku":"9780791466681","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6a4d183f-d75c-4787-9584-a40b20770dc9.jpg?v=1769097020","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/liberation-as-affirmation-ge-ling-shang-9780791466681","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}