The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness

This book investigates the various meanings of forgetting and their ethical dimension in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi. It will be of interest to researchers in Asian philosophy, religion and culture, moral philosophy or ethics, the study of memory and forgetting, and comparative or cross-cultural philosophy and ethics.

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Youru Wang is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and World Religions, Rowan University, USA. He is the author of Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism: The Other Way of Speaking (Routledge/Curzon, 2003), Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism (Rowman & Litlefield 2017), the editor of Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought (Routledge 2007) and the co-editor of Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy (Springer 2019).