Ronnie Littlejohn is Professor of Philosophy at Belmont University and the author of Daoism: An Introduction. Jeffrey Dippmann is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Central Washington University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I The Liezi Text
1. Reading the Liezi: The First Thousand Years
2.The Liezi's Use of the Lost Zhuangzi
3. Is the Liezi an Encheiridion?
Part II Interpretive Essays
1.Torches of Chaos and Doubt: Themes of Process and Transformations in the Liezi
2. The That-Beyond-Which of the Pristine Dao: Cosmogony in the Liezi
3.The Theme of Unselfconsciousness in the Liezi
4. Reading the Zhuangzi in Liezi: Redefining Xianship
Part III Applying the Teachings of the Liezi
1. Body and Identity
2. I, Robot: Self as Machine in the Liezi
3. Dancing with Yinyang: The Art of Emergence
4. How To Fish Like a Daoist
5. When Butterflflies Change into Birds: Life and Death in the Liezi
Contributors
Index