Myth and meaning in early Daoism
Subtitle: the theme of chaos (hundun)
By: N. J. Girardot.
Contributors: Girardot, N. J.
Edition: 1st Three Pines Press ed., [rev. ed.].
Publisher: Three Pines Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Magdalena, N.M
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781931483100
Subjects: Taoism
Other titles: Theme of chaos (hundun)
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Myth and meaning in early Taoism. 1983.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: ordering chaos comparatively; title: Part One: Preliminary meanders; title: Soup, symbol, and salvation: the chaos theme in Chinese and Daoist tradition; title: Part Two: Textual analysis; title: "beginning and return" in the Daode Jing; title: Bored to death: the "arts of Mr. Hundun" in the Zhuangzi; title: Chaotic "order" and benevolent "disorder" in the Zhuangzi; title: Cosmogony and conception in the Huainanzi and Liezi; title: Part Three: Comparative analysis; title: Egg, gourd, and deluge: toward a typology of the chaos theme; title: Egg, gourd, and deluge: the mythological prototype of the chaos theme; title: Part Four: Concluding spirals; title: The order of chaos: symbolic aspects of Daoist mysticism; title: Conclusion: the conundrum of hundun; title: Appendix: related tales.