Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation: An Analysis of the Inner Chapters

by Robert E. Allinson, Robert Cummings Neville (Foreword by)

Professor Robert E. Allinson is a member of the Graduate Faculty and the Department of Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is editor of Understanding the Chinese The Philosophical Roots .

Genres: Philosophy

210 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1989

Reviews

[Ben]

A note to the prospective reader - the analysis is firmly placed into modern philosophical analysis of Zhuangzi (Chuang-Tzu) and not placed in the historical time period or the later writings and schools that were directly influenced by him (Chan, Zen).  The tether to Zhuangzi can feel a bit tenuous when Allinson develops his arguments based on the strength of argumentation or the use of literary devices.  The author uses these arguments to assume authorial intent, though that can also get tenuous as with the argument that the Butterfly dream would be better structured and placed differently than it is.