Media

Beyond the Ghetto No. 23
July 27, 2024


I’m proud to have been featured author for Beyond the Ghetto Episode No. 23, in which I presented Freedom’s Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang’s Zhuangzi (SUNY Press, 2024). In my conversation with Mx. Ingrid Mae De Jesus, we discussed the emergence of classical Chinese, metaphysical and political freedom, and Guo Xiang’s third possibility for Isaiah Berlin’s dichotomy between positive and negative liberty.

Freedom’s Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang’s Zhuangzi by BTG

BTG webinar no. 23 recorded video – 27 July 2024

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New Books in Philosophy
May 21, 2024


My book Freedom’s Frailty: Self-Realization in the Neo-Daoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang’s Zhuangzi (SUNY Press, 2024) was launched with a New Books in Philosophy interview. With host Malcolm Keating, I discuss the importance of exploring Guo Xiang’s thought in its own right as not just a commentator of Zhuangzi, but as the locus of his own systematic approach to medieval Chinese political philosophy.