On Chuang Tzu as a deconstructionist with a difference

Journal of Chinese Philosophy

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 487-500

  Allinson, Robert E ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 61049232469     PISSN: 03018121     EISSN: 15406253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1540-6253.00133     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. For convenience sake, I occasionally use the name Chuang-Tzu to refer to an author, but it actually refers to a text. For a complete explanation, kindly see Robert E. Allinson, Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation (New York: State University of New York Press, 1989, 1996). It is also available on CD-ROM (Boulder, CO: 2000) and will be published in a Chinese translation (Liu Dong, Beijing University, Editor of China Studies Overseas [Nanjing, China: Jiangsu People's Press Overseas, forthcoming in 2004])
2. Burton Watson, The Complete Works of Chuang-Tzu (New York: Columbia University Press, 1970), p. 33
3. For the sake of convenience, deconstruction/ will be used to stand for deconstruction/reconstruction
4. Burton Watson, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu, p. 52
5. For an excellent discussion of self-forgetting, cf. Anthony S. Cua, "Forgetting Morality: Reflections on a Theme in Chuang Tzu," Journal of Chinese Philosophy 4 (1977): 305-328. Note Cua's etymological breakdown of the character wang = to lose = mind
6. Watson, p. 88
7. Cf., Robert E. Allinson, Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation
8. Watson, pp. 47-48
9. A.C. Graham, Chuang-Tzu, The Inner Chapters (London: Hackett, 1991), p. 60. (emphasis added)
10. Cf., Fung Yu-Lan, Chuang-Tzu, A New Selected Translation with anExposition of the Philosophy of Kuo Hsiang (New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corporation, 1964), p. 62. (First published in 1933 in Shanghai)
11. Op. cit
12. Watson, p. 40
13. Wing-tsit Chan's translation of Chuang Tzu in Sources of Chinese Tradition edited by William Theodore de Bary (New York: Dover, 1962), p. 71
14. Watson, p. 32
15. Watson, p. 302
16. Kuang-ming Wu, Chuang Tzu: World Philosopher at Play (New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1982), p. 136
17. I have used Wu's modified version of Merton's "translation" in Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu (New York: New Directions, 1965), p. 112
18. For illustrations of understanding that takes place beyond concepts, one may be referred to Robert E. Allinson, A Metaphysics for the Future (Burlington, VT: Aldershot, 2001)
19. and Space, Time and the Ethical Foundations (Burlington, VT: Aldershot, 2002)