"I Effaced Myself and "The Disappearance of the Subject": A Comparison between Zhuangzi and Jean Baudrillard's Anti-Subjectivism.
In the chapter "The Adjustment of Controversies" in his eponymous work, Zhuangzi has the character Nanguo Ziqi declare "I effaced myself," thereby holding that one can return to the state of naturalness only after breaking with the "self that is in opposition to "objects," abandoning his subject-obj...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers of Philosophy in China Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 213 - 229 |
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