Daoist resonances in Heidegger: non-being, nothingness and the way

"East Asian imagery resonates throughout Martin Heidegger's writings. In this exploration of the connections between Daoism and his thought, an international team of scholars consider why the Daodejing was a text he returned to repeatedly and the extent Heidegger adhered to Daoism's core doctrines. They discuss how Daoist thought provided him with a new perspective, equipping him with images, concepts, and meanings that enabled him to continue his questioning of the nature of being. Exploring the environment, language, death, temporality, aesthetics, and race from the groundlessness of non-being, they illustrate how these themes reverberate with ontological, spiritual, and epistemological potential. A lesson in the art of Daoist and cross-cultural ways of thinking, this collection marks the first sustained analysis of the influence of classical Daoism on a major 20th-century German philosopher."--

Includes index.

Introduction 1. Silence and Another Language in Heidegger and Classical Daoism / Steven Burik, Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore -- 2. On Touching Sculptural Space: The Onto-Aesthetics of Heidegger and Zhuangzi / David Chai, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong -- 3. Rivers to Language: Heidegger's Poetic Lectures and His Reading of Daoism / Daniel Fried, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada -- 4. Heidegger's Daoist Phenomenology / Jay Goulding, Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada -- 5. After Auschwitz: Gelassenheit? Reflections on Heidegger, Adorno, and Daoism / Fabian Heubel, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada -- 6. Race and Spirit: Disturbing the Tranquil Dao and the Meditative Mind / Patricia Huntington, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Department of Social Science, York University, Canada -- 7. Heidegger and the Daodejing: Nothingness, the Thing, and the Way / Eric Nelson, Professor of Philosophy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong …