Freedom's Frailty Professor Ravi SubrahmanyanDraws on Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi to construct an account of freedom that is both metaphysical and political. This book starts with the radical premise that the most coherent way to read the Zhuangzi is through Guo Xiang (d. 312 CE), the classic Daoist text's first and most important commentator, and that the best way to read Guo Xiang is politically. Offering an investigation of the notions of causality, self, freedom, and its political
the most influential literary figures of the mid-Northern Song period and the creators of a distinctive Song poetic style
becoming the first person to take local productions to an overseas market
Propagating techniques (both by seed and budding) are then presented
This report presents copious illustrations of the artifacts of daily life in these two periods
these interviews reveal important information about sleep
aiming to understand the dynamics of contemporary affective cultural politics in a highly mediatized environment
Acts and apparitions examines how new performance practices from the 1990s and the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority
The Heron catches Egypt in the mid-stream of its modern history
straying from the usual path of aristocrats and churches
and the boundaries of human language and physicality
" a comprehensive research tool that provides scholars with more than 5200 abbreviations used in Egyptological and Biblical literature
the role of the literary in sacred experience
