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The provided passages discuss Brook Ziporyn's work, "Experiments in Mystical Atheism," and his translation of "Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings."
According to the passages, Ziporyn proposes an alternative to the divide between theism and scientism. This alternative is described as a "deeper, more thoroughgoing, even religious rejection of God: an affirmative atheism without either a creator to provide meaning or finite creatures in need of it—a mystical atheism" [2]. He finds this critique of theism and a new, positive sensibility in the legacies of Daoism, Buddhism, Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bataille [2]. These "godless epiphanies" are presented as holding the key to renewing philosophy [2].
The passages do not, however, explain the key concepts of Zhuangzi's writings themselves in Ziporyn's own words. They only mention his translation of "Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings" [1, 2].
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m Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond Brook <b>Ziporyn</b>. 1. <b>Zhuangzi</b>, <b>Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings</b>, trans. Brook <b>Ziporyn</b> (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 2020), 272; slightly modified. 2. E3p27 refers to Ethics, Part ...
Title: Experiments in Mystical Atheism by Brook Ziporyn Description: A new approach to the theism-scientism divide rooted in a deeper form of atheism. Western philosophy is stuck in an irresolvable conflict between two approaches to the spiritual malaise of our times: either we need more God (the “turn to religion”) or less religion (the New Atheism). In this book, Brook Ziporyn proposes an alternative that avoids both totalizing theomania and atomizing reductionism. What we need, he argues, is a deeper, more thoroughgoing, even religious rejection of God: an affirmative atheism without…