List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1. Precursory Encounters: Unearthing Fertile Seeds 1. Daoism and Hegel on Painting the Invisible Spirit: To Color or Not? David Chai (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 2. Two Portrayals of Death in Light of the Views of Brentano and Early Daoism, Mary I. Bockover (Humboldt State University, USA) 3. In the Light of Heaven before Sunrise: Zhuangzi and Nietzsche on Transperspectival Experience, Graham Parkes (University College Cork, Ireland and East China Normal University, China) Part 2. Early Encounters: Nourishing the Sprouts of Possibility 4. The Pre-objective and the Primordial: Elements of a Phenomenological Reading of Zhuangzi, Kwok-Ying Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 5.

Martin Buber's Phenomenological Interpretation of the Daodejing , Eric S. Nelson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) 6. Martin Buber's Dao, Jason M. Wirth (Seattle University, USA) 7. The Dao of Existence: Jaspers and Laozi, Mario Wenning (University of Macau, China) Part 3. Mature Encounters: A Forest of Ideas 8. Heidegger and Daoism: A Dialogue on the Useless Way of Unnecessary Being, Bret W. Davis (Loyola University Maryland, USA) 9.

Heidegger and Zhuangzi: The Transformative Art of the Phenomenological Reduction, Patricia Huntington (Arizona State University, USA) 10. The Reader's Chopper: Finding Affinities from Gadamer to Zhuangzi on Reading, Sarah A. Mattice (University of North Florida, USA) 11. Unknowing Silence in the Daodejing and Merleau-Ponty, Katrin Froese (University of Calgary, Canada) Part 4. A Most Urgent Encounter: Re-Rooting Our Futural Selves 12. Grounding Phenomenology in the Daodejing : The Anthropocene, the Fourfold, and the Sage, Martin Sch¿nfeld (University of South Florida, USA) Index.