Wei Li

From Temporal Ecstasis to Eternal Wandering: A Zhuangzian Hermeneutic of the Phenomenological Ontological Turn

This paper employs Zhuangzi’s concept of Xiaoyao (free and easy wandering) as a hermeneutic lens—an interpretive instrument rather than a claim of philosophical correspondence—to re-examine the phenomenological “ontological turn” from Edmund Husserl to Martin Heidegger as a debate fundamentally about temporal ontology....