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Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory (review)

Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory (review) Hans-Georg Moeller. Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory. Chicago: Open Court, 2005. viii, 178 pp. Paperback $16.95, isbn 0­8126­9563­1. When Zhuang Zhou dreamt and turned into a butterfly, there was Zhou and there was the butterfly. There had to be a distinction between them, according to Zhuangzi, which he relates to the "changing of things."1 In the case of Hans-Georg Moeller, there is the sinology scholar and there is the philosopher, there is the German professor and the Canadian chair. This book, Daoism Explained, is to some extent the result of his "changing of jobs" from Germany to Canada, since it is the translation of his earlier work In der Mitte des Kreises: Daoistisches Denken (Insel Verlag, 2001). And it is, more importantly, the fruitful result of the author's expertise in both sinology and philosophy.2 The intention of the author is to free Daoist philosophy from the "metaphysical ballast" in which it has been submerged by "Western" interpretations, but not exclusively by Western scholars (p. vii). He therefore searches more "original" readings of the Laozi and the Zhuangzi and stresses the differences between ancient Daoist and modern Western philosophy. Moeller tries to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory (review)

Defoort, Carine
China Review International , Volume 14 (1) – Oct 4, 2008
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Hans-Georg Moeller. Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory. Chicago: Open Court, 2005. viii, 178 pp. Paperback $16.95, isbn 0­8126­9563­1. When Zhuang Zhou dreamt and turned into a butterfly, there was Zhou and there was the butterfly. There had to be a distinction between them, according to Zhuangzi, which he relates to the "changing of things."1 In the case of Hans-Georg Moeller, there is the sinology scholar and there is the philosopher, there is the German professor and the Canadian chair. This book, Daoism Explained, is to some extent the result of his "changing of jobs" from Germany to Canada, since it is the translation of his earlier work In der Mitte des Kreises: Daoistisches Denken (Insel Verlag, 2001). And it is, more importantly, the fruitful result of the author's expertise in both sinology and philosophy.2 The intention of the author is to free Daoist philosophy from the "metaphysical ballast" in which it has been submerged by "Western" interpretations, but not exclusively by Western scholars (p. vii). He therefore searches more "original" readings of the Laozi and the Zhuangzi and stresses the differences between ancient Daoist and modern Western philosophy. Moeller tries to

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