Youru Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 4349084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Youru Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Youru |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rowan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0847-8714 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Two Questions About Forgetting or Forgetfulness—A Cross-Cultural Engagement with Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Ricoeur, the Virtue Ethicists and the Daoist Zhuangzi
In answering the following two important questions about forgetting or forgetfulness—Can a “happy forgetting” be possible? Can forgetfulness, including (non-Western) Daoist-Zhuangzian forgetfulness, be a virtue?—this article takes a cross-cultural approach, using both Western thought and Asian materials, especially the Zhuangzi, to seek viable responses. The aim is to widen our horizons to include different Western and non-Western traditions of f…
Friendship and forgetfulness in Derrida and the Zhuangzi
Part one of this article introduces the conception of friendship and its connection with forgetfulness in Derrida and the Zhuangzi. Part two deals with the ethical focus of the discourse of friendship in Derrida and the Zhuangzi, which addresses the underlying relationship of oneself-other. Part three reveals how temporality and fleetingness are recognized as elements of friendship by Derrida and the Zhuangzi. While the Zhuangzi lacks the Derride…
The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness
This book investigates the various meanings of forgetting and their ethical dimension in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi. It responds to recent scholarship in the study of the ethics of forgetting, which has only emerged within the past two decades in the wake of the widespread memory-studies of the late 20th century. This book accomplishes two goals: First, it assimilates insights from contemporary scholarship, and specifically applies Ricoeur’s thr…
Forgetting oneself or personal identity in relation to time and otherness in the Zhuangzi
This article is one of the author’s serial writings to assimilate Ricoeur’s three-fold ethical investigation into various areas of human acts of forgetting, including 1) the therapeutic or pathological area, 2) the pragmatic area, dealing with individual and group’s self-identity in relation to time and otherness, and 3) the more explicitly ethical-political (social and institutional) area, in a wide context. Corresponding to the second area of t…
Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy
Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism
The popular name for Chan Buddhism, in the West, is Zen Buddhism, as it was Japanese scholars who first introduced Chan Buddhism to the West with this translation. Indeed, chan is a shortened form of the Chinese word channa, rendered from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, which denotes practices of the concentration of the mind through meditation or contemplation. Although rooted in the Indian tradition of yoga, which aims at the unification of the indiv…
Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought
The striking parallels between Derrida’s deconstruction and certain strategies eschewing oppositional hierarchies in Asian thought, especially in Buddhism and Daoism, have attracted much attention from scholars of both Western and Asian philosophy. This book contributes to this discussion by focusing on the ethical dimension and function of deconstruction in Asian thought. Examining different traditions and schools of Asian thought, including Ind…
Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism
1. Introduction Part I: Deconstruction in the Zhuangzi and in Chan Buddhism 2. Understanding Deconstruction through the Zhuangzi and Chan 3. Zhuangzi's Dao Deconstructs and Zhuangzi deconstructs his Dao 4. The Deconstruction of Buddha Nature in Chan Buddhism Part II: The Liminology of Language in the Zhuangzi and in Chan Buddhism 5. What is a Liminology of Language? 6. Zhuangzi's Liminology of 'Speaking Non-Speaking' 7. The Chan Contribution to t…
Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism
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. Whilst focusing on language use, the study also reveals some important truths about these two traditi…
Philosophy of Change and the Deconstruction of Self in the Zhuangzi
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 27, Issue 3 p. 345-360 Philosophy of Change and the Deconstruction of Self in the Zhuangzi Youru Wang, Youru Wang Rowan University, Glassboro, New JerseySearch for more papers by this author Youru Wang, Youru Wang Rowan University, Glassboro, New JerseySearch for more papers by this author First published: 17 December 2002 https://doi.org/10.1111/0301-8121.00021Citations: 6AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport…
The Pragmatics of 'Never Tell Too Plainly'
This is a philosophical investigation of the linguistic strategy of Chinese Chan Buddhism. First, it examines the underlying structure of Chan communication, which determines the Chan pragmatics of 'never tell too plainly'. The examination of the structural features of Chan communication reveals what the Chan 'special transmission' means. The Chan definition of communication is very different from the Aristotelian conception of communication in t…
The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness
This book investigates the various meanings of forgetting and their ethical dimension in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi. It responds to recent scholarship in the study of the ethics of forgetting, which has only emerged within the past two decades in the wake of the widespread memory-studies of the late 20th century. This book accomplishes two goals: First, it assimilates insights from contemporary scholarship, and specifically applies Ricoeur’s thr…
Philosophy of Change and the Deconstruction of Self in the Zhuangzi
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 27, Issue 3 p. 345-360 Philosophy of Change and the Deconstruction of Self in the Zhuangzi Youru Wang, Youru Wang Rowan University, Glassboro, New JerseySearch for more papers by this author Youru Wang, Youru Wang Rowan University, Glassboro, New JerseySearch for more papers by this author First published: 17 December 2002 https://doi.org/10.1111/0301-8121.00021Citations: 6AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport…
The Pragmatics of 'Never Tell Too Plainly'
This is a philosophical investigation of the linguistic strategy of Chinese Chan Buddhism. First, it examines the underlying structure of Chan communication, which determines the Chan pragmatics of 'never tell too plainly'. The examination of the structural features of Chan communication reveals what the Chan 'special transmission' means. The Chan definition of communication is very different from the Aristotelian conception of communication in t…
Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism
1. Introduction Part I: Deconstruction in the Zhuangzi and in Chan Buddhism 2. Understanding Deconstruction through the Zhuangzi and Chan 3. Zhuangzi's Dao Deconstructs and Zhuangzi deconstructs his Dao 4. The Deconstruction of Buddha Nature in Chan Buddhism Part II: The Liminology of Language in the Zhuangzi and in Chan Buddhism 5. What is a Liminology of Language? 6. Zhuangzi's Liminology of 'Speaking Non-Speaking' 7. The Chan Contribution to t…
Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism
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. Whilst focusing on language use, the study also reveals some important truths about these two traditi…
Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought
The striking parallels between Derrida’s deconstruction and certain strategies eschewing oppositional hierarchies in Asian thought, especially in Buddhism and Daoism, have attracted much attention from scholars of both Western and Asian philosophy. This book contributes to this discussion by focusing on the ethical dimension and function of deconstruction in Asian thought. Examining different traditions and schools of Asian thought, including Ind…
Historical Dictionary of Chan Buddhism
The popular name for Chan Buddhism, in the West, is Zen Buddhism, as it was Japanese scholars who first introduced Chan Buddhism to the West with this translation. Indeed, chan is a shortened form of the Chinese word channa, rendered from the Sanskrit word dhyāna, which denotes practices of the concentration of the mind through meditation or contemplation. Although rooted in the Indian tradition of yoga, which aims at the unification of the indiv…
Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy
Forgetting oneself or personal identity in relation to time and otherness in the Zhuangzi
This article is one of the author’s serial writings to assimilate Ricoeur’s three-fold ethical investigation into various areas of human acts of forgetting, including 1) the therapeutic or pathological area, 2) the pragmatic area, dealing with individual and group’s self-identity in relation to time and otherness, and 3) the more explicitly ethical-political (social and institutional) area, in a wide context. Corresponding to the second area of t…
Friendship and forgetfulness in Derrida and the Zhuangzi
Part one of this article introduces the conception of friendship and its connection with forgetfulness in Derrida and the Zhuangzi. Part two deals with the ethical focus of the discourse of friendship in Derrida and the Zhuangzi, which addresses the underlying relationship of oneself-other. Part three reveals how temporality and fleetingness are recognized as elements of friendship by Derrida and the Zhuangzi. While the Zhuangzi lacks the Derride…
The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness
This book investigates the various meanings of forgetting and their ethical dimension in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi. It responds to recent scholarship in the study of the ethics of forgetting, which has only emerged within the past two decades in the wake of the widespread memory-studies of the late 20th century. This book accomplishes two goals: First, it assimilates insights from contemporary scholarship, and specifically applies Ricoeur’s thr…
Two Questions About Forgetting or Forgetfulness—A Cross-Cultural Engagement with Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Ricoeur, the Virtue Ethicists and the Daoist Zhuangzi
In answering the following two important questions about forgetting or forgetfulness—Can a “happy forgetting” be possible? Can forgetfulness, including (non-Western) Daoist-Zhuangzian forgetfulness, be a virtue?—this article takes a cross-cultural approach, using both Western thought and Asian materials, especially the Zhuangzi, to seek viable responses. The aim is to widen our horizons to include different Western and non-Western traditions of f…
Philosophy (9 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Buddhism (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Deconstruction (building) (3 works) · doctrines (3 works)