Spiritual individualism in China
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Title
Spiritual individualism in China
Description
Empty Vessel (2018), Palmer, David;Siegler, Elijah.
Abstract
Chinese Daoists are not ontological individualists in the American sense--but this does not mean that they are the opposite of individualists. Our comparison of the Western and Chinese trajectories does not aim to contrast a Chinese "collectivism" to American individualism. Rather, the "individualistic" dimension of Chinese Daoism has interacted with selfhood, authority, and tradition in ways that cannot be described through the lens of Western dichotomies of the individual versus the institution, resistance versus authority, or innovation versus tradition. An excerpt from Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Sprituality (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Alternative Title
Empty Vessel
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Date
Date Created
10/1/2019
Language
English
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Subject
Type
Journal Article
issn
1073-7480
issue
3
page end
7
page start
4
volume
25