NYU Tao A New Way of Thinking A Translation of Tao Te Ching’ by Chang Chung Yuan Essay

The Critical Review Essay focusses on the close textual analysis on one book chosen from the Suggested List. Overall the purpose is to employ strategies of hermeneutics and phenomenology. You could summarize and describe your book for a few pages (4 pgs for example). You could analyze it in terms of logos, mythos, phusis, aletheia or other ideas discussed in the course (4 pgs for example). Please type and double space in traditional essay format.(Summarize the film or the content you are using for at least 4 pages and 4 pages of analysis using the. Term you picked. Demonstrate how they relate)

8 pages or 2000 Words

Readings:

1. Chang, Chung-yuan, Tao – A New Way of Thinking: A Translation of the Tao Te Ching. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2013. ISBN-13: 978-1-84819-201-0 paperback [on reserve]

2. Heidegger, Martin. Sojourns: The Journey to Greece. Albany: SUNY, 2005.

ISBN: 978-0-7914-6496-0 paperback B 3279 H48 A9413

3. Heidegger, Martin. Parmenides. Indiana University Press, 1998.

ISBN: 978-0-253-21214-6 paperback B 3279 H48 P3713 1992

4. Moeller, Hans-Georg. Daoism explained: from the dream of the butterfly to the fishnet allegory. Chicago: Open Court, 2004. ISBN: 0812695631 paperback B 162.7 M63 2004

Readings (More Suggested—available mostly at York’s Scott Library):

Agard, Walter R. The Greek Mind. Malabar: Krieger Publishing, 1979. DF 77 A52

Adler, Joseph. Reconstructing the Confucian Dao: Zhu Xi’s Appropriation of Zhou Dunyi.

Albany: SUNY, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-4384-51572 paperback B 128 C44 A63 2014

Ames, Roger. The Art of Rulership: A Study of Ancient Chinese Political Thought. Albany: SUNY, 1994.

BL 1900 H824 E5 1994

Bernal, Martin. Black Athena: the Afroasiatic roots of classical civilization, The fabrication of ancient Greece, 1785-1985 vol. 1 New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1987. CB 245 B44 1987

Bernal, Martin. Black Athena: The archaeological and documentary evidence vol. 2. New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1991.

Bernal, Martin. Black Athena: The linguistic evidence vol. 3. New Brunswick: Rutgers, 2006.

Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 1949. New York: Pantheon. BL 313 C28 1968

Chan, Wing-tsit trans/compiled. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University, 1963.

B 125 C45

Eberhard, Wolfram, A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought. London: Routledge, 1986. DS 721 E32613 1986

Feng, Gia-Fu and Jane English, trans. Lao Tsu: Tao Te Ching. New York: Random House. Detroit: Wayne State, 1972. BL 1900 L3 F46 1972

Goulding, Jay ed. China-West Interculture, Toward the Philosophy of World Integration: Essays on Wu Kuang-ming’s Thinking. New York: Global Scholarly Publications, 2008. 336 pgs. B 126 C445 2008

Hall, David L. and Roger T. Ames. Thinking Through Confucius. Albany: SUNY, 1987. Volume 1.

B 128 C8 H35 1987

Hall, David L. and Roger T. Ames. Anticipating China: Thinking Through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture. Albany: SUNY, 1995. Volume 2. 334 pgs. DS 721 H24 1995

Hall, David L. and Roger T. Ames. Thinking from the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture. Albany: SUNY, 1998. Volume 3. 336 pgs. B 126 H255 1998

Heidegger, Martin. On the Way to Language. New York: Harper and Row, 1971. P 106 H3613

Heidegger, Martin. Early Greek Thinking. New York: Harper and Row, 1975. B 188 H44 1975

Heidegger, Martin. The Beginnings of Western Philosophy: Interpretation of Anaximander and

Parmenides. Indiana University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0-253-01553-2 B 208 Z7 H4413 2015

Heidegger, Martin and Eugen Fink. Heraclitus Seminar. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1993.

B 223 H4313 1993

Jung, Hwa Yol. Prolegomena to a Carnal Hermeneutics, 2014. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. B 829.5 J86

Kasulis Thomas P. with Roger T. Ames and Wimal Dissanayake eds. Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice. Albany: SUNY, 1993. B 105 B64 S45 1993

Krell, David Farrell. Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: on the verge, 1990. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. BF 371 K74 1990

Moeller, Hans-Georg. The Philosophy of the Daodejing. Columbia University Press, 2006.

ISBN: 978-0-231-13679-2 BL 1900 L35 M64 2006

Moeller, Hans-Georg and Paul J. D’Ambrosio. Genuine Pretending On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi.

Columbia University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-021-183994

Moore, David Chioni. Black Athena writes back: Martin Bernal responds to his critics, 2001. DF 78 B3984 2001

O’Neill, John. Perception, Expression and History: the Social Phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970. B 2430 M384 O54

O’Neill, John. Phenomenology, Language and Sociology: Selected Essays of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

London: Heinemann, 1974. B 2430 M378 O54

O’Neill, John. The Communicative Body: Studies in Communicative Philosophy, Politics, and Sociology.

Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1989. P 90 O5 1989

Palmer, Richard E. Hermeneutics: Interpretation theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer.

Evanston Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1969. BD 241 P32

Park, Jin Young. ed. Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung, 2009. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. JA 71 C5656 2009

Richardson, William J. Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought New York: Fordham University Press, 2003. B 3279 H49 R5 2003

Schürmann, Reiner. Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. B 3279 H49 S35513 1987

Parkes, Graham ed. Heidegger and Asian Thought, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987.

B 3279 H49 H34 1987

Shankman, Steven and Stephen W. Durrant eds. Early China/Ancient Greece: Thinking through Comparisons. Albany: SUNY, 2002. 305 pgs. DS 741.65 E35 2002

Vycinas, Vincent. Earth and gods; an introduction to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1961. B 3279 H49 V9

Watson Burton trans., The Complete Works of Zhuangzi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-231-16474-0 BL 1900 C5 W34

Wu, Kuang-ming. Chinese Wisdom Alive. New York: Nova, 2010. B 5231 W8158 2010

Wu, Kuang-ming. Nonsense: Cultural Mediations on the Beyond. New York: Nova, 2012. BD 362 W84 2012

Zhang, Longxi, The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994. PN 871 C545 1992

Ziporyn, Brook. The Penumbra Unbound: the neo-Taoist philosophy of Guo Xiang. New York: SUNY, 2003.

BL 1920 Z46 2003