The essential writings with selections from traditional commentaries ebook written by zhuangzi, brook ziporyn. The essential writings, presented with selected commentaries on the inner chapters, has already replaced its predecessors and proved to be an indispensable resource for students and scholars alike. The complete writings english edition zhuangzi, ziporyn, brook on. Brook ziporyn is associate professor of religion and philosophy, northwestern university. Ideal for students and scholars alike, this edition of zhuangzi chuang tzu includes the complete inner chapters, extensive selections from the outer and miscellaneous chapters, and judicious selections from two thousand years of traditional chinese commentaries, which provide the reader access to the text as well as to its reception and interpretation. The importance of ziporyns translation of the complete zhuangzi lies in its. Ziporyns book was recommended by another author, scott bradley, whose writing on chuang tzu i have found beneficial. The essential writings with selections from traditional commentaries, by ziporyn isbn 9780872209114 ship for free. Zhuangzi has 59 books on goodreads with 31206 ratings. About the zhuangzi a note on the translation zhuangzi as philosopher the dao of the daodejing additional commentary to passage 1. Chapters, with selections from the rest of the received zhuangzi text.
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