Body concepts in Pre-Chin Confucianism and Taoism and Their Traces in the Contemporary Society

• Main Authors: Cheung, Daniel Shing-lum, 張成林
• Other Authors: Liu, I-Min
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1996
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30101824203665225726

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 體育學系 === 84 === This dissertation examines the influences of Pre-Chin Confucian and Taoist"Body Concepts" on the contemporary societies. The underlying strategy of thewhole work is Derrida''s concept of double reading with the following pointsof convergence. 1. The body has been socially constructed as the conveyance of convictions, such as moral, instrumental, playful, free, transcendent body. This shows some traces of pre-Chin Confucian and Taoist body concepts in the contemporary societies. 2. The body as the field of manifestation has been treated both in pre-Chin Confucianism and Taoism. To further study the body concept in our contemporary societies, one finds that it coexists, on the one hand, with the concept of social control and domination and the traditional Confucian concept of commitment. On the other, the reactionary tradition to it is the concept of liberation and free-play with strong affiliations with Taoism.