Nothingness in Asian Philosophy
2014
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A variety of crucial and still most relevant ideas about nothingness or emptiness have gained profound philosophical prominence in the history and development of a number of South and East Asian traditions-including in Buddhism, Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, Hinduism, Korean philosophy, and the Japanese Kyoto School.These traditions share the insight that in order to explain both the great mysteries and mundane facts about our experience, ideas of "nothingness" must play a primary role. This collection of essays brings together the work of twenty of the world's prominent scholars of Hindu, Buddhist, Daoist, Neo-Confucian, Japanese and Korean thought to illuminate fascinating philosophical conceptualizations of "nothingness" in both classical and modern Asian traditions. The unique collection offers new work from accomplished scholars and provides a coherent, panoramic view of the most significant ways that "nothingness" plays crucial roles in Asian philosophy. It includes both traditional and contemporary formulations, sometimes putting Asian traditions into dialogue with one another and sometimes with classical and modern Western thought. The result is a book of immense value for students and researchers in Asian and comparative philosophy.
Main title:
Nothingness in Asian Philosophy / edited by Jeeloo Liu, Douglas Berger.
Author:
Liu, JeeLoo, editorBerger, Douglas L., 1970-, editor
Imprint:
London : Routledge, 2014.
Collation:
1 volume
Contents:
<strong>PART I Emptiness in Brahminical and Early Buddhist Traditions</strong> <strong>Chapter 1</strong> The Unavoidable Void: Non-Existence, Absence, and Emptiness<em>Arindam Chakrabarti</em> <strong>Chapter 2<em> </em></strong>Semantics of Nothingess: Bhartrhari's Philosophy of Negation <i>Sthaneshwar Timalsina</i><strong>Chapter 3</strong> Madhyamaka, Nihilism and the Emptiness of Emptiness <em>Jay L. Garfield</em> <strong>Chapter 4</strong> In Search of the Semantics of Emptiness <i>Koji Tanaka</i><strong>Chapter 5</strong> Madhyamaka Emptiness and Buddhist Ethics <em>Mark Siderits </em><strong>Chapter 6</strong><em></em>Emptiness and Violence: An Unexpected Encounter of Nagarjuna with Derrida and Levinas <em>Chen-kuo Lin </em><strong>Chapter 7</strong> Speaking of the Ineffable <em>Graham Priest </em><strong>Chapter 8</strong>Emptiness as Subject-Object Unity: Sengzhao on the Way Things Truly Are <em>Chien-hsing Ho </em><strong>Chapter 9</strong> On Nothing in Particular: Delimiting Not-Being for Knowing's Sake <em>Rajam Raghunathan </em><strong>Chapter 10</strong> The Cognition of Nonexistent Objects: Five Yogacara Arguments <em>Zhihua Yao </em><strong>PART II Nothingness in Early Modern and Modern East Asian Traditions</strong> <strong>Chapter 11</strong> The Notion of <i>Wu</i> or Non-being as the Root of the Universe and a Guide for Life <em>Xiaogan Liu </em><strong>Chapter 12 </strong>The Relation Of Nothing And Something: Two Classical Chinese Readings Of Dao De Jing 11 <em>Douglas L. Berger </em><strong>Chapter 13</strong> Was There Something in Nothingness? The Debate on the Primordial State between Daoism and Neo-Confucianism <em>JeeLoo Liu </em><strong>Chapter 14</strong> Heart-Fasting, Forgetting, and Using the Heart Like a Mirror: Applied Emptiness in the <em>Zhuangzi Chris Fraser </em><strong>Chapter 15 </strong>Embodying Nothingness and the Ideal of the Affectless Sage in Daoist Philosophy <em>Alan K. L. Chan </em><strong>Chapter 16</strong> Nothingness in Korean Buddhism: The Struggle against Nihilism <em>Halla Kim </em><strong>Chapter 17 </strong>Zen,<sup> </sup>Philosophy, and Emptiness: Dogen and the deconstruction of concepts <i>Gereon Kopf</i><strong>Chapter 18</strong> Anontology and the Issue of Being and Nothing in Kitaro Nishida <em>John W.M. Krummel </em><strong>Chapter 19 </strong>Tanabe's Dialectic of Species as Absolute Nothingness <em>Makoto Ozaki</em><strong>Chapter 20</strong> Nishitani on Emptiness and Nothingness<i>Yasuo Deguchi </i>
ISBN:
9780415829441 (pbk)
Dewey class:
111.5
LC class:
BD398
Language:
English
BRN:
307908