Nothingness in Asian philosophy

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Nothingness in Asian philosophy

edited by JeeLoo Liu and Douglas L. Berger

Routledge, 2014

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-343) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The first book of its kind to focus on notions of nothingness and emptiness in Asian philosophy Offers original contributions, never before published Contributors are internationally renowned scholars in all the respective fields of research Written for a broad readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in a number of different fields Comprehensively covers the notion of nothingness (or emptiness) in Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean philosophy Includes metaphysical, epistemological, semantic, ethical and psychological dimensions of nothingness Focuses on philosophical problems rather than merely explicating historical views Takes a comparative approach, relating the philosophical positions discussed to other philosophical issues or traditions Provides a comprehensive Introduction that presents the penetrating themes running through all the chapters and gives a synopsis of each chapter-readers thus may easily navigate through the book and the issues it covers

目次

PART I Emptiness in Brahminical and Early Buddhist TraditionsChapter 1 The Unavoidable Void: Non-Existence, Absence, and Emptiness Arindam ChakrabartiChapter 2 Semantics of Nothingess: Bhartrhari's Philosophy of Negation Sthaneshwar Timalsina Chapter 3 Madhyamaka, Nihilism and the Emptiness of Emptiness Jay L. GarfieldChapter 4 In Search of the Semantics of Emptiness Koji Tanaka Chapter 5 Madhyamaka Emptiness and Buddhist Ethics Mark Siderits Chapter 6Emptiness and Violence: An Unexpected Encounter of Nagarjuna with Derrida and Levinas Chen-kuo Lin Chapter 7 Speaking of the Ineffable Graham Priest Chapter 8 Emptiness as Subject-Object Unity: Sengzhao on the Way Things Truly Are Chien-hsing Ho Chapter 9 On Nothing in Particular: Delimiting Not-Being for Knowing's Sake Rajam Raghunathan Chapter 10 The Cognition of Nonexistent Objects: Five Yogacara Arguments Zhihua Yao PART II Nothingness in Early Modern and Modern East Asian TraditionsChapter 11 The Notion of Wu or Non-being as the Root of the Universe and a Guide for Life Xiaogan Liu Chapter 12 The Relation Of Nothing And Something: Two Classical Chinese Readings Of Dao De Jing 11 Douglas L. Berger Chapter 13 Was There Something in Nothingness? The Debate on the Primordial State between Daoism and Neo-Confucianism JeeLoo Liu Chapter 14 Heart-Fasting, Forgetting, and Using the Heart Like a Mirror: Applied Emptiness in the Zhuangzi Chris Fraser Chapter 15 Embodying Nothingness and the Ideal of the Affectless Sage in Daoist Philosophy Alan K. L. Chan Chapter 16 Nothingness in Korean Buddhism: The Struggle against Nihilism Halla Kim Chapter 17 Zen, Philosophy, and Emptiness: Dogen and the deconstruction of concepts Gereon Kopf Chapter 18 Anontology and the Issue of Being and Nothing in Kitaro Nishida John W.M. Krummel Chapter 19 Tanabe's Dialectic of Species as Absolute Nothingness Makoto Ozaki Chapter 20 Nishitani on Emptiness and Nothingness Yasuo Deguchi

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