Butterfly Redreaming: Rethinking Free, with Zhuangzi Flying Westerly with Descartes, Lacan, Waldman…

Usually, Zhuangzi’s parable of “the butterfly dream/dreaming butterfly” is read as an enigmatic version, from “the East”, of the Cartesian skeptical challenges to “objective reality” or else the Lacanian psycho-drama of the “pure gaze” in which “he”, Zhuangzi, “is a butterfly for nobody”, who stands...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kyoo Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-04-01
Series:Humanities
Subjects:
Dao
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/2/198