{"product_id":"9781350236691","title":"Philosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism In the Matrix of the Daodejing","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePhilosophical Enactment and Bodily Cultivation in Early Daoism\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eIn the Matrix of the Daodejing\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThomas Michael\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eReligion \/ Taoism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThomas Michael\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor at the Beijing Normal University, China.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30 November 2023\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350236691\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e288\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e14.24\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369437429900,"sku":"9781350236691","price":36.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_13d81756-9fb8-403d-85b0-0570f18e9aa7.jpg?v=1783879141","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781350236691","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}