Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism (eBook)

Gereon Kopf, Jin Y. Park (Herausgeber)

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2009
350 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-4077-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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 including Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. The book 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.

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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.

Autor

Jin Y. Park is associate professor of philosophy and religion at American University. Gereon Kopf is associate professor of religion at Luther College.

Inhalt

Part 1 Introduction: Philosophy, Non-Philosophy, and Comparative PhilosophyPart 2 Part One: Body: Self in the Flesh of the WorldChapter 3 Chapter 1. Merleau-Pontean "Flesh" and its Buddhist InterpretationChapter 4 Chapter 2. Merleau-Pontean Body and the Buddhist Theory of Five Skandhas: Yasuo Yuasa's Philosophy of the BodyChapter 5 Chapter 3. How the Tree Sees Me: Sentience and Insentience in Tiantai and Merleau-PontyChapter 6 Chapter 4. The Human Body as a Boundary Symbol: A Comparison of Merleau-Ponty and DogenPart 7 Part Two: Space: Thinking and Being in the Chiasm of VisibilityChapter 8 Chapter 5. The Double: Merleau-Ponty and Chinul on Thinking and QuestioningChapter 9 Chapter 6. The Notion of the "Words that Speak the Truth" in Merleau-Ponty and ShinranChapter 10 Chapter 7. Self in Space: Nishida Philosophy and Phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-PontyChapter 11 Chapter 8. Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne, and the Basho of the VisibleChapter 12 Chapter 9. "Place of Nothingness" and the Dimension of Visibility: Nishida, Merleau-Ponty, and HuinengPart 13 Part Three: The World: Ethics of Emptiness, Ethics of the FleshChapter 14 Chapter 10. The Flesh of the World is Emptiness and Emptiness is the Flesh of the World, and their Ethical ImplicationsChapter 15 Chapter 11. Merleau-Ponty and Nagarjuna: Enlightenment, Ethics, and PoliticsChapter 16 Chapter 12. Ki-Energy: Underpinning Religion and EthicsChapter 17 Chapter 13. Merleau-Ponty and Asian Philosophy: The Double Walk of Buddhism and Daoism

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.8.2009
• Co-Autor: Michael P. Berman, Bernard Stevens, Funaki Toru, Brook Ziporyn, David Brubaker, Gerald Cipriani, Jay Goulding, Hyong-hyo Kim, Gereon Kopf, Glen A. Mazis, Shigenori Nagatomo, Carl Olson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies • Buddhist philosophy • Buddhist Studies • Comparative Philosophy • Eastern philosophy • Phenomenology • Philosophy • Religion • Religious Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-4077-9 / 0739140779
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-4077-2 / 9780739140772