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Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi | Reviews | Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | University of Notre Dame

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"A romp through 'the vast wilds of open nowhere'" -- Roger Ebert "Better than any existing work on humor" -- Aristotle "Nothing more than a success" --...

"A romp through 'the vast wilds of open nowhere'" -- Roger Ebert "Better than any existing work on humor" -- Aristotle "Nothing more than a success" -- Guy Smiley "A demonstration of nothing . . . in a technical sense" -- Ford Prefect "A tour de force through the 'homeland of non-even-anything'" -- Steven Colbert This book presents a novel reading of the Zhuangzi that illuminates its humor and presents it as responding to philosophical concerns of its day. To the extent that these philosophical concerns are also those of the present day -- the search for a sane and healthy response to the impo

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