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Trying Not To Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, And The Power Of Spontaneity
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A deeply original exploration of the power of spontaneity—an ancient Chinese ideal that cognitive scientists are only now beginning to understand—and why it is so essential to our well-being   Why is it always hard to fall asleep the night before…
Mind and Body in Early China: Beyond Orientalism and the Myth of Holism
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Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "holistic" other. The idea that the early Chinese held the "strong" holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been…
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, And Stumbled Our Way To Civilization
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Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the Humanities
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Calls for a "consilient" or "vertically integrated" approach to the study of human mind and culture have, for the most part, been received by scholars in the humanities with either indifference or hostility. One reason for this is that consilience has often been…
What Science Offers the Humanities: Integrating Body and Culture
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What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing current approaches to the study of culture. It focuses especially on the excesses of postmodernism, but also acknowledges serious problems with postmodernism's harshest critics. In…
Effortless Action: Wu-wei As Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China
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This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"--in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei…
The Way of Nature

The Way of Nature

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Borrachos: Cómo bebimos, bailamos y tropezamos en nuestro camino hacia la civilización
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Wie wir mehr erreichen, wenn wir weniger wollen: Das Wu-Wei-Prinzip
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Jeder kennt es: Je angestrengter wir versuchen einzuschlafen, desto wacher werden wir. Je verzweifelter wir nach einem Partner suchen, desto weniger fruchten unsere Bemühungen. Erst wenn wir nichts mehr erzwingen wollen, sondern gelassen und spontan an die Dinge…