Selfhood East and West: Selfhood East and West: De-Constructions of Identity: Weltphilosophie im Gespräch

Hans-Georg Möller IntroductionI. ChinaDeborah Sommer The Ji Self in Early Chinese TextsRichard John Lynn Concepts of Self and Identity in the Zhuangzi: New Translations of Key PassagesPaul D'Ambrosio The Role of a Pretending Tree:Hermits, Social Constructs, and the 'Self' in the ZhuangziHans-Rudolf Kantor Identity and Transformation in the Chinese Mahayana TraditionsII. EuropeS.J. McGrath The Dissociated SelfBrendan Moran 'Weltperson' in Salomo Friedlaender's Schöpferische IndifferenzIII. Comparative Case StudiesJason Dockstader Monism in Spinoza and DaoismHans Skott-Myhre Who Are We to Become If We Are Not This:Spinoza's Substance and the Dao of Deleuze's DesireAndrew Whitehead Equating Unequal ThingsKarl-Heinz Pohl Who is Who? Zhuangzi and the Dead Man in Lu Xun's and Enzensberger's Rewritings of ZhuangziLorraine Markotic The Seized Subject in Badiou's Ethics and Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleIV. Alternative Paradigms Günter Wohlfart EGOD: The Death of the EgoJohn C. Maraldo Personal Autonomy: An Alternative ViewRolf Trauzettel Two Mythic Paradigms of the Constitution of PersonhoodNotes on the Editors