LIBERATION AS AFFIRMATION -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- REINTERPRETING ZHUANGZI AND NIETZSCHE -- PERSPECTIVE ON COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY -- METHOD AND PLAN -- 2. ZHUANGZI'S DAO: A WAY OF FREEDOM -- THE CONCEPT OF DAO IN EARLY CHINESE HISTORY -- WUWU: A DECONSTRUCTION OF METAPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVES OF DAO -- DAO THROUGHS AS ONE -- WUZHI: EQUALIZING OPINIONS IS THE WAY OF TRUE KNOWLEDGE -- LANGUAGE WITHOUT WORDS: BEYOND LANGUAGE AND SILENCE -- WUWEI OR NON-DOING: AGAINST THE TRADITION OF MORALITY -- XIAO YAO YOU: A SPIRITUAL FREEDOM REALIZED IN THIS WORLD -- 3. NIETZSCHE'S PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE AFFIRMATION -- NIETZSCHE'S MISSION: REVALUATION OF ALL VALUES -- GENEALOGY: A NEW WAY OF PHILOSOPHIZING -- TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE, AND MORALS -- Metaphysics as a Symptom of Human Decadence -- Truths as Lies and Will to Truth as Ascetic Ideal -- Language and Truth -- Does Nietzsche Renounce the Existence of Truth? -- A Genealogical Critique of Morality -- Overcoming Metaphysics -- TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE, AND MORALS -- THE WORLD OF APPEARANCES AND THE WILL TO POWER -- RELIGIOSITY: LIBERATION AS LIFE AFFIRMATION -- 4. AN INTERPLAY BETWEEN ZHUANGZI AND NIETZSCHE -- GOBLET WORDS AND DIONYSIAN DITHYRAMB -- TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE, AND INTERPRETATION -- REVALUATION AND DEVALUATION: BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL -- NATURE AS PRIMAL UNITY -- TRUE PERSON AND ÜBERMENSCH: LIVING IN THE WORLD -- ZIRAN AND FREEDOM: LIFE AFFIRMATION -- FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ZHUANGZI AND NIETZSCHE -- 5. CONVERGING NEW WORLDS: ZHUANGZI,NIETZSCHE, AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY -- AFFIRMATION AFTER DECONSTRUCTION: ZHUANGZI AND NIETZSCHE CHALLENGE POSTMODERN SOLUTIONS -- THE LIBERATION OF THOUGHT: ZHUANGZI AND NIETZSCHE IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA -- PHILOSOPHICAL RELIGIOSITY -- NOTES -- SELECTED REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O.

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