Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi - Paperback

by Mark Csikszentmihalyi (Editor), Philip J. Ivanhoe (Editor)

Leading scholars examine religious and philosophical dimensions of the Chinese classic known as the Daodejing or Laozi.

Author Biography

Mark Csikszentmihalyi is Assistant Professor of Religion at Davidson College and a former Fellow at the National Humanities Center. He also serves as editor of the American Academy of Religion's Texts and Translations book series. Philip J. Ivanhoe is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of several books, including Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mencius and Wang Yang-Ming and Confucian Moral Self Cultivation. Most recently he has coedited, with Paul Kjellberg, Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi, published by SUNY Press.