{"product_id":"philosophical-enactment-and-bodily-cultivation-thomas-michael-9781350236653","title":"Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism: In the Matrix of the Daodejing","description":"In \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas Michael illuminates the formative early history of the \u003ci\u003eDaodejing\u003c\/i\u003e and the social, political, religious, and philosophical trends that indelibly marked it. \u003cbr\u003eThis book centers on the matrix of the \u003ci\u003eDaodejing\u003c\/i\u003e that harbors a penetrating phenomenology of the Dao together with a rigorous system of bodily cultivation. It traces the historical journey of the text from its earliest oral circulations to its later transcriptions seen in a growing collection of ancient Chinese excavated manuscripts. It examines the ways in which Huang-Lao thinkers from the Han Dynasty transformed the original phenomenology of the \u003ci\u003eDaodejing\u003c\/i\u003e into a metaphysics that reconfigured its original matrix, and it explores the success of the Wei-Jin Daoist Ge Hong in bringing the matrix back into its original alignment. \u003cbr\u003eThis book is an important contribution to cross-cultural studies, bringing contemporary Chinese scholarship on Daoism into direct conversation with Western scholarship on Daoism. The book also concludes with a discussion of Martin Heidegger's recognition of the position and value of the \u003ci\u003eDaodejing\u003c\/i\u003e for the future of comparative philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Michael\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350236659\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350236653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Thomas Michael","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43944061337855,"sku":"9781350236653","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_618f28e3-05bc-404e-956d-c3e6968a7581.jpg?v=1681501563","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/philosophical-enactment-and-bodily-cultivation-thomas-michael-9781350236653","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}