The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness: Engaging the Daoist Zhuangzi in Studies of Cultivated Forgetting [Hardcover]

Introduction;?Chapter 1. A Critical Survey of Recent Scholarship on Human Forgetting and Its Ethical Dimension;?Chapter 2. Therapeutic Forgetting in the Zhuangzi;?Chapter 3. Forgetting Oneself or Personal Identity in Relation to Time and Otherness;?Chapter 4. The Ethical Dimension of Forgetting at the Social-Institutional Level (I): The Conception of Responsiveness to Others in Relation to Forgetting Oneself;?Chapter 5. The Ethical Dimension of Forgetting at the Social-Institutional Level (II): The Zhuangzian Capacity for Responsiveness to Others;?Chapter 6. From Suitableness and the Forgetting of Invariable Norms, to Patient-Centeredness and Altruistic Elements;?Chapter 7. Empathic Capacity in the Zhuangzi and How It Works with the Forgetting of Oneself;?Chapter 8. Forgetfulness and Friendship in the Zhuangzi and in Derrida;?Epilogue: Answers to Two Questions about Forgetting;?Bibliography;?Index

This book investigates the various meanings of forgetting and their ethical dimension in the Daoist classic?Zhuangzi.?It?will be of interest to researchers in Asian philosophy, religion and culture, moral philosophy or ethics, the study of memory and forgetting, and comparative or cross-cultural philosophy and ethics.

The philosophical perspectives embedded in the text of the?Zhuangzi?are only just beginning to come to the attention of Anglophone scholarship, presenting an enormous task as well as huge potentials and challenges for the future of philosophy: for explosive synergies, radical rethinkings, redrawn parsingsa rich mine for discoveries of hitherto unsuspected questionings and unnoticed options toward solutions that open up vast new territories for metaphysical, ethical and social reflection.? ?Professor Youru Wang's book contributes significantly to this dawning endeavor with a new apprlƒ,