| Summary: | "As the first systematic attempt to probe the linguistic strategies of Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism, this book investigates three areas: deconstructive strategy, liminology of language, and indirect communication. It bases these investigations on the critical examination of original texts, placing them strictly within soteriological contexts." "While focusing on language use, the study also reveals some important truths about the two traditions, and the challenges many conventional understandings of them. Responding to recent critiques of Daoist and Chan Buddhist thought, it brings these traditions into a constructive dialogue with contemporary philosophical reflection. It "discovers" Zhuangzian and Chan perspectives and sheds light on issues such as the relationship between philosophy and non-philosophy, de-reification of words, relativizing of the limit of language, structure of indirect communication, and use of double negation, paradox, tautology, irony, and poetic language."--Jacket.
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