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Author Fried, Daniel, 1973- author.

Title Dao and sign in history : Daoist arche-semiotics in ancient and medieval China / Daniel Fried.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Ser.
SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture Ser.
Summary "From its earliest origins in the Dao De Jing of Laozi, Daoism has been a known as a movement that is skeptical of the ability of language to fully express the truth. While many scholars have compared the earliest works of Daoism to language-skeptical movements in twentieth-century European philosophy and have debated to what degree early Daoism does or does not resemble these recent movements, Daniel Fried breaks new ground by examining a much broader array of Daoist materials from ancient and medieval China and showing how these works influenced ideas about language in medieval religion, literature, and politics. Through an extended comparison with a broad sample of European philosophical works, Dao and Sign in History explores how ideas about language grow out of a given historical moment and advances a larger argument about how philosophical and religious ideas cannot be divided into "content" and "context"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Defining "arche-semiotics" -- Ways through language -- Ways beyond language -- Tracing the obscure -- Traces of transcendence -- Sign, translation, enlightenment -- The arche-semiotic mind and the carving of dragons.
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Subject Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- Taoism.
Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- Taoism.
Semiotics -- Religious aspects -- Taoism.
Semiotics -- Religious aspects.
Taoism.
Signs and symbols.
Signs and symbols.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Fried, Daniel. Dao and Sign in History : Daoist Arche-Semiotics in Ancient and Medieval China. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2018 9781438471938
ISBN 9781438471945 (electronic book)
1438471947 (electronic book)
9781438471938
1438471939