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Nietzsche and Zen - Self Overcoming Without a Self (Hardcover)
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Nietzsche and Zen - Self Overcoming Without a Self (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
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In Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self, Andre van der
Braak engages Nietzsche in a dialogue with four representatives of
the Buddhist Zen tradition: Nagarjuna (c. 150-250), Linji (d. 860),
Dogen (1200-1253), and Nishitani (1900-1990). In doing so, he
reveals Nietzsche's thought as a philosophy of continuous
self-overcoming, in which even the notion of "self" has been
overcome. Van der Braak begins by analyzing Nietzsche's
relationship to Buddhism and status as a transcultural thinker,
recalling research on Nietzsche and Zen to date and setting out the
basic argument of the study. He continues by examining the
practices of self-overcoming in Nietzsche and Zen, comparing
Nietzsche's radical skepticism with that of Nagarjuna and comparing
Nietzsche's approach to truth to Linji's. Nietzsche's methods of
self-overcoming are compared to Dogen's zazen, or sitting
meditation practice, and Dogen's notion of forgetting the self.
These comparisons and others build van der Braak's case for a
criticism of Nietzsche informed by the ideas of Zen Buddhism and a
criticism of Zen Buddhism seen through the Western lens of
Nietzsche - coalescing into one world philosophy. This treatment,
focusing on one of the most fruitful areas of research within
contemporary comparative and intercultural philosophy, will be
useful to Nietzsche scholars, continental philosophers, and
comparative philosophers."
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