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Double Exposure - Cutting Across Buddhist and Western Discourses (Hardcover, First)
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Double Exposure - Cutting Across Buddhist and Western Discourses (Hardcover, First)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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This book explores the possible relations between Western types of
rationality and Buddhism. It also examines some cliches about
Buddhism and questions the old antinomies of Western culture
("faith and reason," or "idealism and materialism"). The use of the
Buddhist notion of the Two Truths as a hermeneutic device leads to
a double or multiple exposure that will call into question our
mental habits and force us to ask questions differently, to think
"in a new key." Double Exposure is somewhat of an oddity. Written
by a specialist for nonspecialists, it is not a book of
vulgarization. Although it aims at a better integration of Western
and Buddhist thought, it is not an exercise in comparative
philosophy or religion. It is neither a contribution to Buddhist
scholarship in the narrow sense, nor a contribution to some vague
Western "spirituality." Cutting across traditional disciplines and
blurring established genres, it provides a leisurely but deeply
insightful stroll through philosophical and literary texts, dreams,
poetry, and paradoxes.
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