DAO Companion to Xuanxue 玄學 (Neo-Daoism)

Part 1: Basic Matters.- Chapter 1. On the Difference between Classical and Neo-Daoism.- Chapter 2. Wang Bi, Guo Xiang and Philosophical Exegesis: A New Approach to Reading Classical Texts (Richard J. Lynn).- Chapter 3. The Neo-Daoist Lifestyle: Self-Cultivation and Qi Practices (Livia Kohn).- Chapter 4. The Patterning of Names (mingli 名理) and Metaphysical Style (fengdu 風度) in Neo-Daoism (Jana Rosker).- Chapter 5. The Place of Reclusion (yin 隱) in Neo-Daoism (Thomas Michael).- Part 2: Foreshadowing Neo-Daoism in the Eastern Han.- Chapter 6. Concept of Oneness in the Taiping Jing 太平經 (Barbara Hendrischke).- Chapter 7. The Taiping Jing's太平經Interest in the Social Impact of Yin and Yang (Barbara Hendrischke).- Chapter 8. Dao and Spiritual-Clarity: The Two Faces of Heshang Gong 河上公 (Kam-Ming Yip).- Chapter 9. The Xiang'er 想爾Commentator's Method and Contribution to Neo-Daoism (Ronnie Littlejohn).- Chapter 10. Wang Chong's 王充View of Spontaneity (ziran 自然) and its Influence on Wang Bi and Guo Xiang (Alexus McLeod).- Part 3: Wei Dynasty Figures.- Chapter 11. He Yan's 何晏 (193-249) "Essay on Dao" (dao lun道論); "Essay on the Nameless (wuming lun 無名論) (Paul D'Ambrosio).- Chapter 12. He Yan's Commentary to the Lunyu 論語 (Yuet-Keung Lo).- Chapter 13. Ruan Ji's 阮籍 (210-263) Notion of Ziran in "Biography of the Great Man" (daren xiansheng zhuan 大人先生傳) (Ellen Zhang).- Chapter 14. Ruan Ji's "On Comprehending Zhuangzi" (da Zhuang lun 達莊論)(David Chai).- Chapter 15. Ruan Ji's "Essay on Music" (yue lun 樂論) and the Importance of Taking Pleasure in Music (Elisa Levi Sabattini).- Chapter 16. Ji Kang's 嵇康 (223-262) "Rhapsody on the Qin" (qinfu 琴賦) (David Chai).- Chapter 17. Ji Kang's "Dispelling Self-Interest" (shisi lun 失思論) (David Chai).- Chapter 18. The Aesthetics of Musical Emotion in Ji Kang's "Music Has in It Neither Grief nor Joy." (sheng wu aile lun聲無哀樂論) (So-Jeong Park).- Chapter 19. Time, Space and Decision: Wang Bi's王弼 (226-249) Interpretation of the Yijing 易經 (Tze-Ki Hon).- Chapter 20. Language and Nothingness in Wang Bi (Eric Nelson).- Chapter 21. Wang Bi's Metaphysical Reading of the Daodejing 道德經 (Alan Fox).- Chapter 22. Xiang Xiu's 向秀 (227-272) Commentary to Zhuangzi 莊子 .- Part 4: Jin Dynasty Figures (Major).- Chapter 23. Pei Wei's 裴頠 (267-300) "Treatise on Treasuring Being" (chongyou lun 崇有論).- Chapter 24. Metaphysics and Ethics in Guo Xiang's Commentary to the Zhuangzi 莊子 (Chris Fraser).- Chapter 25. Lone-Transformation (duhua 獨化) and Interdependence (xiangyin 相因) (Yuet-Keung Lo).- Chapter 26. Guo Xiang's Theory of Sagely Knowledge (Richard J. Lynn).- Chapter 27. Zhang Zhan's 張湛Commentary to Liezi.- Chapter 28. Finding One's Home within One's Self: Themes of "Reclusion (yin 隱)" in the Liezi 列子 (Jeffrey Dippmann).- Chapter 29. On xuan 玄 in the Baopuzi 抱朴子 (Fabrizio Pregadio).- Chapter 30. Seeking Immortality in the Baopuzi neipian 內篇 (Fabrizio Pregadio).- Chapter 31. Being, non-Being, and Oneness in the Baopuzi (Thomas Michael).- Part 5: Jin Dynasty Figures (Minor).- Chapter 32. Zhi Daolin 支道林 (314-366).- Chapter 33. Empty Traces: Neo-Daoist Influences on the Chinese Madhyamika Buddhism of Seng Zhao 僧肇 (384-414) (Jeffrey Dippmann).- Chapter 34. The Image of Landscape in Xie Lingyun's謝靈運 (385-433) Poetry (Johanna Liu).