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- Title
"Emperor Hundun": A Cultural Hermeneutic.
- Authors
Wu Kuang-ming
- Abstract
Among the four reading-levels, the textual and exegetical levels of Zhuangzi's Hundun-story are problem-free, and so we focus expository-wise on its conspicuous hospitality (not fighting as other myths) with nine implications. Then, hermeneutically, we see Hundun instructing us against clarity toward unclarity—cosmological, self-composing, cognitive, and communal—of kindly humus, in cosmic confusion, sleep and idleness, mist and pond-dragonfly, and non-ruling people-sovereignty. Pan-hospitality is our Emperor Hundun's non-arbitrary imperative to nurture life.
- Subjects
HERMENEUTICS; INTERPRETATION (Philosophy); READING; HOSPITALITY; METAPHYSICAL cosmology; LITERARY theory; PHILOSOPHY; MYTHOLOGY
- Publication
Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, 2007, Vol 6, Issue 3, p263
- ISSN
1540-3009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11712-007-9016-y