Buddhism and Postmodernity (eBook)

Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist Postmodern Ethics

Jin Y. Park (Autor)

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2010
338 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-6427-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Through a close analysis of Zen encounter dialogues (gong'ans) and Huayan Buddhist philosophy, Buddhism and Postmodernity offers a new ethical paradigm for Buddhist-postmodern philosophy.

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Buddhism and Postmodernity is a response to some of the questions that have emerged in the process of Buddhism's encounters with modernity and the West. Jin Y. Park broadly outlines these questions as follows: first, why are the interpretations and evaluations of Buddhism so different in Europe (in the nineteenth century), in the United States (in the twentieth century), and in traditional Asia; second, why does Zen Buddhism, which offers a radically egalitarian vision, maintain a strongly authoritarian leadership; and third, what ethical paradigm can be drawn from the Buddhist-postmodern form of philosophy? Park argues that, as unrelated as these questions may seem, the issues that have generated them are related to perennial philosophical themes of identity, institutional power, and ethics, respectively. Each of these themes constitutes one section of Buddhism and Postmodernity. Park discusses the three issues in the book through the exploration of the Buddhist concepts of self and others, language and thinking, and universality and particularities. Most of this discussion is drawn from the East Asian Buddhist traditions of Zen and Huayan Buddhism in connection with the Continental philosophies of postmodernism, hermeneutics, and deconstruction. Self-critical from both the Buddhist and Western philosophical perspectives, Buddhism and Postmodernity points the reader toward a new understanding of Buddhist philosophy and offers a Buddhist-postmodern ethical paradigm that challenges normative ethics of metaphysical traditions.

Autor

Jin Y. Park is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at American University.

Inhalt

Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part One. Centripetality: Buddhism and MetaphysicsChapter 3 The Silence of the BuddhaChapter 4 Hegel and BuddhismChapter 5 The Logic of Nothing and A-MetaphysicsPart 6 Part Two. Centrifugality: Language and ViolenceChapter 7 Language and Thinking: Subjectivity and Zen Huatou MeditationChapter 8 Thinking and Violence: Zen HermeneuticsChapter 9 Violence Institutionalized: The Social Dimension of Zen LanguagePart 10 Part Three. The Tension: Buddhism and the Politics of PostmodernityChapter 11 Modernity, Postmodernity, and the Question of LegitimationChapter 12 Postmodern Small Discourses and the Huayan World of Mutually Non-interfering PhenomenaChapter 13 Envisioning Zen Ethics through Huayan PhenomenologyChapter 14 The Ethics of Tension: Toward Buddhist Deconstructive Ethics

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.10.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies • Buddhism and Postmodernity • Buddhist philosophy • Buddhist Studies • Contemporary Philosophy • Eastern philosophy • ethics • Metaphysics • normativity • Philosophy • Religion • Zen Buddhism
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-6427-9 / 0739164279
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-6427-3 / 9780739164273