A Comparative Study of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche’s Tragic Vision and Aestheticism

This article argues that both Zhuangzi and Nietzsche’s aestheticism is a means of overcoming their tragic vision of life. Nietzsche’s aesthetic state of Dionysian intoxication and Zhuangzi’s floating/wandering (游) involve similar, rapturous self-loss in merging with a primal unity or ground being of...

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Subtitles:Special Forum on Taoism and Western Literature
Authors: Zeng, Hong (Author) ; Harmon, William 1938- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2020]
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 4, Pages: 467-476
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
CD Christianity and Culture
VA Philosophy
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