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Zen and the White Whale - A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick (Hardcover)
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Zen and the White Whale - A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick (Hardcover)
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In Moby-Dick's wide philosophical musings and central narrative
arch, Daniel Herman finds a philosophy very closely aligned
specifically with the original teachings of Zen Buddhism. In
exploring the likelihood of this hitherto undiscovered influence,
Herman looks at works Melville is either known to have read or that
there is a strong likelihood of his having come across, as well as
offering a more expansive consideration of Moby-Dick from a Zen
Buddhist perspective, as it is expressed in both ancient and modern
teachings. But not only does the book delve deeply into one of the
few aspects of Moby-Dick's construction left unexplored by
scholars, it also conceives of an entirely new way of reading the
greatest of American books-offering critical re-considerations of
many of its most crucial and contentious issues, while focusing on
what Melville has to teach us about coping with adversity,
respecting ideological diversity, and living skillfully in a
fickle, slippery world.
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