Daoism, Practice, and Politics: From Nourishing Life to Ecological Praxis

Moments of recognition are possible amid regimes of systematic misrecognition. Anarchic dao-archy is presupposed, as it is the open generative self-patterning of life itself, even as biopolitically realized forms of domination and oppression occlude it. Its unrestricted communication and exchange en...

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Published in:Philosophy east & west 2023-07, Vol.73 (3), p.792-801
Main Author: Nelson, Eric S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authoritarianism
Emptying
Environmental philosophy
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Ideology
Memory
Oppression
Political participation
Religion
Skepticism
Social networks
Taoism
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Summary:Moments of recognition are possible amid regimes of systematic misrecognition. Anarchic dao-archy is presupposed, as it is the open generative self-patterning of life itself, even as biopolitically realized forms of domination and oppression occlude it. Its unrestricted communication and exchange entails practices of emptying, forgetting, and unblocking fixations to release and attune individual, intersubjective, and interthingly life. A critical participatory Daoist ecopolitics would, therefore, promote seeing oneself as situated relational individuals bound and potentially responsive to networks of life and seeing how social-political involvement is a constitutive element in partaking in and nourishing existence.
ISSN:0031-8221
1529-1898
1529-1898
DOI:10.1353/pew.2023.a903375