Reading Emptiness
Buddhism and Literature
Seiten
1999
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-4262-3 (ISBN)
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-4262-3 (ISBN)
Concludes that the closest thing in Western culture to the Middle Way of Buddhism is not any sort of theory or philosophy, but the practice of literature.
Reading Emptiness connects ancient Buddhist attitudes and ideas with postmodern theory and aesthetics, concluding that the closest thing in Western culture to the Middle Way of Buddhism is not any sort of theory or philosophy, but the practice of literature. The book draws on scholarship and criticism in literary theory, philosophy, and science to speculate about the possible common ground between literary and Buddhist practices, aiming not so much to elucidate the ancient traditions of Buddhism as to seek ways in which literature might be integrated into a truly Western practice of Buddhism that would remain philosophically true to its Eastern roots.
Reading Emptiness connects ancient Buddhist attitudes and ideas with postmodern theory and aesthetics, concluding that the closest thing in Western culture to the Middle Way of Buddhism is not any sort of theory or philosophy, but the practice of literature. The book draws on scholarship and criticism in literary theory, philosophy, and science to speculate about the possible common ground between literary and Buddhist practices, aiming not so much to elucidate the ancient traditions of Buddhism as to seek ways in which literature might be integrated into a truly Western practice of Buddhism that would remain philosophically true to its Eastern roots.
Jeff Humphries is LSU Foundation Professor of Comparative Literature, French, and English, and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Louisiana State University. His many books include The Otherness Within: Gnostic Readings in Marcel Proust, Flannery O'Connor and Francois Villon; and Losing the Text: Readings in Literary Desire.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: (Anti-)Theory
1. Proust and the Bonsai Tree: Theories of Art Western and Eastern
2. Reading Emptiness: Proust with Nagarjuna and Dogen Zenji
3. The Karmic Text: Buddhism and Translation
Part 2: Practice
4. Lafcadio Hearn, Decadence, and the Dream of Buddhist Japan
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.8.1999 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series, The Margins of Literature |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 281 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7914-4262-4 / 0791442624 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7914-4262-3 / 9780791442623 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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