Postmodern Ethics, Emptiness, and Literature (eBook)

Encounters between East and West

Jae-seong Lee (Autor)

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2015
270 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1921-2 (ISBN)

Infos

An interdisciplinary study of postmodern ethics and literary criticism from the perspective of Chan/Seon/Zen Buddhism, this book combines the tradition of Western metaphysics and its contact with Asian thought, contemporary Western thought, Buddhism, Taoism (to a minor extent), and literary criticism.

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This study advances contemporary postmodern/poststructural critical theory, literary criticism in particular, with the help of Mahayanaespecially Ch'an/Seon (Chinese and Korean Zen)Buddhist thought. The quest for theinfinity of the Other (West) and Emptiness or the true I (East) contributes to the exploration of the contemporary critical issues of ethics and infinity. Such an approach will awaken our sense of unrepresented, genuine transcendence and immanence; The Buddhist Emptiness shows us the absolute Other illuminated on a vaster scale. The theory section explores and links Eastern and Western philosophies, switching between the two. While discussing in depth Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas, Lacan, Deleuze, and Nancy, this study gradually guides the reader from the contemporary Western thought on the Other and infinity to the Buddhist vision of Emptiness, the ultimate reality. To overcome the dualistic mode of thought inherent in tradition of Western metaphysics, this exploration follows the line that observes Nagarjuna and the imprint of Ch'an teachings that are most prevalent in South Korean Buddhism. The last three chapters demonstrate a Levinasian and Seon Buddhist approach to the book of Job, part of the Judeo-Christian Bible, as being a more literary than religious text, and the excess of the Gothic mood in the two most distinguished and widely celebrated novelsBram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The three texts compel readers to confront the infinity of the absolute Other or Emptiness.The Grand Prize Winner of the 7th Wonhyo Academic Awards from the Korean Buddhism Promotion Foundation.

Autor

Jae-seong Lee is professor of English specializing in critical theory at Pusan National University.

Inhalt

CHAPTER I Postmodernism through Levinasian Ethics to Buddhist PhilosophyCHAPTER II Levinasian Ethics and Other Postmodern Ethical TheoriesCHAPTER III Positivity toward Infinity: Levinas, Buddhism, and LiteratureCHAPTER IV Searching for a Breakthrough to the No Self or Real I: Ch’an/Seon/Zen, Levinasian Ethics, and Literary ReadingCHAPTER V A Process of Awakening in a Religious Narrative: The Book of JobCHAPTER VI Gothic Excess as the Trace of the Other or the Real I: A Levinasian and Buddhist Approach to the Terror Mood of Dracula CHAPTER VII Desire for the Infinity of the Other and the Excess of the Terror Mood in Frankenstein Conclusion: Time for the True Encounter between East and West

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Asian philosophy • Asian Studies • Bram Stoker • British Literature • Buddhism • Comparative Literature • Comparative Philosophy • Comparative Religion • Continental Philosophy • Critical theory • Deleuze • Derrida • Dracula • East and West • ethics • Frankenstein • Gothic fiction • Hegel • Heidegger • Job • Lacan • Levinas • Levinas and Buddhism • Levinasian ethics • Literary criticism • Literature • mahayana buddhism • Mary Shelley • Nancy • Nietzsche • Postmodernism • Postmodern literary criticism • poststructuralism • Religious Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1921-0 / 1498519210
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1921-2 / 9781498519212