Concerning comparing the Dao with Deleuze and Guattari...
(I am someone who studied Deleuze and Guattari, amongst other philosophers, at PhD level by the way, having got my Bachelor's at the age of 29, my Master's at the age of 37 and studied a PhD in my 40s by the way)
Given I also studied Habermas and Husserl, it might be worth knowing the name Chung-Yin Cheng as well as Andrew Fuyarchuk
Chung-Yin Cheng studies the Dao in a way that Fuyarchuk finds comparable in parts to the hermeneutics of Gadamer.
This is a 'back door' but informative route for the reasons of this path:
1. Deleuze in Difference and Repetition criticises Hegel
2. Hegel and Schopenhauer were competitors as lecturers who charged their students as contemporaries in the same town
3. Schopenhauer influenced Sigmund Freud and Nietzsche, both essential for Deleuze and Guattari
4. Also essential for the Frankfurt School of which Habermas is part
5. Michel Foucault, a friend, contemporary and a big influence on Gilles Deleuze once said that had he discovered the Frankfurt School earlier, he would have had to do less research.
6. Gilles Deleuze's book 'Foucault' is then worth reading to know why Foucault's opinion on the Frankfurt School is worth acknowledging here concerning the writings of Deleuze and Guattari
7. Thus Chung-Yin Cheng is worth knowing for your purposes, as is Fuyarchuk - you can then dispense with reading the entire path I have described (I did that for you!) and just head straight for these two! ;-)
Otherwise, good luck! A worthy subject and feel free to pick my brain any time in the future whilst studying for your Master's degree!
Once knowing this, Gadamer's use of Aristotle and Heraclitus is useful to be aware of, a more direct route to Deleuze and Guattari (otherwise one goes past a Master's degree and must also read Husserl (and therefore Descartes) to understand the broader expanse from around path also covers Heidegger and Sartre! And that would take you too off-topic at a Master's degree level!)
Other names worth knowing though (In case) - earlier Timothy Morton and Levi Paul Bryant (Object-Oriented Ontology/ Speculative Materialism)
And for the one-book-read for the path I explain above, my supervisor Darrow Schecter's book The Critique of Instrumental Reason, should you need to read up a similar path to the one I described in the comment above
Concerning comparing the Dao with Deleuze and Guattari...
(I am someone who studied Deleuze and Guattari, amongst other philosophers, at PhD level by the way, having got my Bachelor's at the age of 29, my Master's at the age of 37 and studied a PhD in my 40s by the way)
Given I also studied Habermas and Husserl, it might be worth knowing the name Chung-Yin Cheng as well as Andrew Fuyarchuk
Chung-Yin Cheng studies the Dao in a way that Fuyarchuk finds comparable in parts to the hermeneutics of Gadamer.
This is a 'back door' but informative route for the reasons of this path:
1. Deleuze in Difference and Repetition criticises Hegel
2. Hegel and Schopenhauer were competitors as lecturers who charged their students as contemporaries in the same town
3. Schopenhauer influenced Sigmund Freud and Nietzsche, both essential for Deleuze and Guattari
4. Also essential for the Frankfurt School of which Habermas is part
5. Michel Foucault, a friend, contemporary and a big influence on Gilles Deleuze once said that had he discovered the Frankfurt School earlier, he would have had to do less research.
6. Gilles Deleuze's book 'Foucault' is then worth reading to know why Foucault's opinion on the Frankfurt School is worth acknowledging here concerning the writings of Deleuze and Guattari
7. Thus Chung-Yin Cheng is worth knowing for your purposes, as is Fuyarchuk - you can then dispense with reading the entire path I have described (I did that for you!) and just head straight for these two! ;-)
Otherwise, good luck! A worthy subject and feel free to pick my brain any time in the future whilst studying for your Master's degree!
Once knowing this, Gadamer's use of Aristotle and Heraclitus is useful to be aware of, a more direct route to Deleuze and Guattari (otherwise one goes past a Master's degree and must also read Husserl (and therefore Descartes) to understand the broader expanse from around path also covers Heidegger and Sartre! And that would take you too off-topic at a Master's degree level!)
Other names worth knowing though (In case) - earlier Timothy Morton and Levi Paul Bryant (Object-Oriented Ontology/ Speculative Materialism)
And for the one-book-read for the path I explain above, my supervisor Darrow Schecter's book The Critique of Instrumental Reason, should you need to read up a similar path to the one I described in the comment above