Brook Ziporyn is Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Northwestern University.

Acknowledgments

PART I

Introduction

The Classical Chinese Philosophical Background

An Overview of Guo Xiang's Philosophical Project

The Problem of Spontaneity and Morality in Earlier Xuanxue

Guo's Solution:The Image of Traces

The Dangers of Traces

PART II

Interactivity Without Traces: "Vanishing (Into) Things"

The Unification of Independence and Interdependence

PART III

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The Unity of Activity and Nonactivity

APPENDIX A

Guo Xiang's Use of the Term Xing: The Inherency of Change and the Confluence of Chance, Freedom, and Necessity in the Notion of the Self-So

APPENDIX B

Comparative Notes on Freedom and Determinism

Notes

Bibliography

Index