Dockstader, J: Selfhood East and West: Selfhood East

Hans-Georg Möller
Introduction

I. China

Deborah Sommer
The Ji Self in Early Chinese Texts

Richard John Lynn
Concepts of Self and Identity in the Zhuangzi:
New Translations of Key Passages

Paul D'Ambrosio
The Role of a Pretending Tree:
Hermits, Social Constructs, and the 'Self' in the Zhuangzi

Hans-Rudolf Kantor
Identity and Transformation in the Chinese Mahayana Traditions

II. Europe

S.J. McGrath
The Dissociated Self

Brendan Moran
'Weltperson' in Salomo Friedlaender's Schöpferische Indifferenz

III. Comparative Case Studies

Jason Dockstader
Monism in Spinoza and Daoism

Hans Skott-Myhre
Who Are We to Become If We Are Not This:
Spinoza's Substance and the Dao of Deleuze's Desire

Andrew Whitehead
Equating Unequal Things

Karl-Heinz Pohl
Who is Who? Zhuangzi and the Dead Man in Lu Xun's and Enzensberger's Rewritings of Zhuangzi

Lorraine Markotic
The Seized Subject in Badiou's Ethics and Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

IV. Alternative Paradigms

Günter Wohlfart
EGOD: The Death of the Ego

John C. Maraldo
Personal Autonomy: An Alternative View

Rolf Trauzettel
Two Mythic Paradigms of the Constitution of Personhood

Notes on the Editors