Zhuangzi and Simone Weil on Decreating the Self

Comparative and Continental Philosophy 14 (3):281-294 (2022)
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Abstract

This essay thinks through Nanguo Ziqi’s famous “I lost myself” (wu sang wo 吾喪我) remark in the Qiwulun 齊物論 in light of Weil’s notion of decreation. The desire to undo the self is paradoxical, and most philosophical interpretations of the Zhuangzi passage try to avoid the paradox of “I lost myself” by positing various levels of self. Weil’s decreation embraces the paradox, and thereby helps clarify how Nanguo’s “I lost myself” connects with his subsequent metaphor of pipes of Heaven. More broadly, this essay is a first step in drawing together these two uniquely unsystematic and paradoxical thinkers.

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