Selected Papers from the 18th Symposium of the Académie du Midi: Identity-East and West, Alet-les-Bains, France, 2010

Hans-Georg Möller Introduction I. China Deborah Sommer The Ji Self in Early Chinese Texts Richard John Lynn Concepts of Self and Identity in the Zhuangzi: New Translations of Key Passages Paul D'Ambrosio The Role of a Pretending Tree: Hermits, Social Constructs, and the 'Self' in the Zhuangzi Hans-Rudolf Kantor Identity and Transformation in the Chinese Mahayana Traditions II. Europe S.J. McGrath The Dissociated Self Brendan Moran 'Weltperson' in Salomo Friedlaender's Schöpferische Indifferenz III. Comparative Case Studies Jason Dockstader Monism in Spinoza and Daoism Hans Skott-Myhre Who Are We to Become If We Are Not This: Spinoza's Substance and the Dao of Deleuze's Desire Andrew Whitehead Equating Unequal Things Karl-Heinz Pohl Who is Who? Zhuangzi and the Dead Man in Lu Xun's and Enzensberger's Rewritings of Zhuangzi Lorraine Markotic The Seized Subject in Badiou's Ethics and Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle IV. Alternative Paradigms Günter Wohlfart EGOD: The Death of the Ego John C. Maraldo Personal Autonomy: An Alternative View Rolf Trauzettel Two Mythic Paradigms of the Constitution of Personhood Notes on the Editors