[Revised entry by Alan Chan on October 22, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Daoism (also romanized as Taoism) generally names one of the three main currents of traditional Chinese thought, although it should be obvious that like any “ism,” it is an abstraction – what it names is not a uniform but multifaceted tradition with rich internal differences. Specifically, “Daoism” encompasses both a philosophical tradition and an organized religion, which in modern Chinese are identified separately as daojia and daojiao,…
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Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
