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Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing
through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's
phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as
Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging
the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical traditions,
Merleau-Ponty proposes a philosophy in which the traditional
opposites are encountered through mutual penetration. Likewise, a
Buddhist worldview is articulated in the theory of dependent
co-arising, or the middle path, which comprehends the world and
beings in the third space, where the subject and the object, or
eternalism and annihilation, exist independent of one another. The
thirteen essays in this volume explore this third space in their
discussions of Merleau-Ponty's concepts of the intentional arc, the
flesh of the world, and the chiasm of visibility in connection with
the Buddhist doctrine of no-self and the five aggregates, the
Tiantai Buddhist concept of threefold truth, Zen Buddhist huatou
meditation, the invocation of the Amida Buddha in True Pure Land
Buddhism, and Nishida's concept of basho.
Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing
through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's
phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as
Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging
the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical traditions,
Merleau-Ponty proposes a philosophy in which the traditional
opposites are encountered through mutual penetration. Likewise, a
Buddhist worldview is articulated in the theory of dependent
co-arising, or the middle path, which comprehends the world and
beings in the third space, where the subject and the object, or
eternalism and annihilation, exist independent of one another. The
thirteen essays in this volume explore this third space in their
discussions of Merleau-Ponty's concepts of the intentional arc, the
flesh of the world, and the chiasm of visibility in connection with
the Buddhist doctrine of no-self and the five aggregates, the
Tiantai Buddhist concept of threefold truth, Zen Buddhist huatou
meditation, the invocation of the Amida Buddha in True Pure Land
Buddhism, and Nishida's concept of basho. In his philosophical
project, Merleau-Ponty makes vigorous efforts to challenge the
boundaries that divide philosophy and non-philosophy, the East and
the West, experience and concepts, the subject and the object, and
body and mind. Combining the Eastern philosophical tradition of
Buddhism with Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty and
Buddhism offers an intercultural philosophy in which opposites
intermingle in a chiasmic relationship, and which brings new
understanding regarding the self and the self's relation with
others in a globalized and multicultural world.
This book presents two essays by Nishida Kitaro, translated into
English for the first time by John Krummel and Shigenori Nagatomo.
Nishida is widely regarded as one of the father figures of modern
Japanese philosophy and as the founder of the first distinctly
Japanese school of philosophy, the Kyoto school, known for its
synthesis of western philosophy, Christian theology, and Buddhist
thought. The two essays included here are ''Basho'' from 1926/27
and ''Logic and Life'' from 1936/37. Each essay is divided into
several sections and each section is preceded by a synopsis added
by the translators. The first essay represents the first systematic
articulation of Nishida's philosophy of basho, literally meaning
''place, '' a system of thought that came to be known as ''Nishida
philosophy.'' In the second essay, Nishida inquires after the
pre-logical origin of what we call logic, which he suggests is to
be found within the dialectical unfoldings of world-history and
human society. A substantial introduction by John Krummel considers
the significance of Nishida as a thinker, discusses the key
components of Nishida's philosophy as a whole and its development
throughout his life, and contextualizes the translated essays
within his oeuvre. The Introduction also places Nishida and his
work within the historical context of his time, and highlights the
relevance of his ideas to the global circumstances of our day. The
publication of these two essays by Nishida, a major figure in world
philosophy and the most important philosopher of twentieth-century
Japan, will be of significant value to the fields not only of Asian
philosophy and East-West comparative philosophy but also of
philosophy in general as well as of theology and religious studies
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Ki, shugyćo, shintai
Yuasa Yasuo; Translated by Shigenori Nagatomo, Monte S. Hull
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