The Formless Self
Joan Stambaugh
Gathering and interpreting material that is not readily available elsewhere, this book discusses the thought of the Japanese Buddhist philosophers Dogen, Hisamatsu, and Nishitani. Stambaugh develops ideas about the self culminating in the concept of the Formless Self as formulated by Hisamatsu in his book The Fullness of Nothingness and the essay "The Characteristics of Oriental Nothingness," and further explicated by Nishitani in his book Religion and Nothingness. These works show that Oriental nothingness has nothing to do with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western concept of nihilism. Instead, it is a positive phenomenon, enabling things to be.
Anno:
1999
Casa editrice:
State University of New York Press
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
188
ISBN 10:
0791441490
ISBN 13:
9780791441497
File:
PDF, 5.69 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1999