Nothingness in Asian philosophy
"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 J...
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2014
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Table of Contents:
- PART I Emptiness in Brahminical and Early Buddhist Traditions
- Chapter 1 The Unavoidable Void: Non-Existence, Absence, and Emptiness Arindam Chakrabarti
- Chapter 2 Semantics of Nothingess: Bhartrhari's Philosophy of Negation Sthaneshwar Timalsina
- Chapter 3 Madhyamaka, Nihilism and the Emptiness of Emptiness Jay L. Garfield
- Chapter 4 In Search of the Semantics of Emptiness Koji Tanaka
- Chapter 5 Madhyamaka Emptiness and Buddhist Ethics Mark Siderits
- Chapter 6 Emptiness and Violence: An Unexpected Encounter of Nagarjuna with Derrida and Levinas Chen-kuo Lin
- Chapter 7 Speaking of the Ineffable Graham Priest
- Chapter 8 Emptiness as Subject-Object Unity: Sengzhao on the Way Things Truly Are Chien-hsing Ho
- Chapter 9 On Nothing in Particular: Delimiting Not-Being for Knowing's Sake Rajam Raghunathan Chapter 10 The Cognition of Nonexistent Objects: Five Yogacara Arguments Zhihua Yao
- PART II Nothingness in Early Modern and Modern East Asian Traditions
- Chapter 11 The Notion of Wu or Non-being as the Root of the Universe and a Guide for Life Xiaogan Liu
- Chapter 12 The Relation Of Nothing And Something: Two Classical Chinese Readings Of Dao De Jing 11 Douglas L. Berger
- Chapter 13 Was There Something in Nothingness? The Debate on the Primordial State between Daoism and Neo-Confucianism JeeLoo Liu Chapter 14 Heart-Fasting, Forgetting, and Using the Heart Like a Mirror: Applied Emptiness in the Zhuangzi Chris Fraser
- Chapter 15 Embodying Nothingness and the Ideal of the Affectless Sage in Daoist Philosophy Alan K. L. Chan
- Chapter 16 Nothingness in Korean Buddhism: The Struggle against Nihilism Halla Kim
- Chapter 17 Zen, Philosophy, and Emptiness: Dogen and the deconstruction of concepts Gereon Kopf
- Chapter 18 Anontology and the Issue of Being and Nothing in Kitaro Nishida John W.M. Krummel
- Chapter 19 Tanabe's Dialectic of Species as Absolute Nothingness Makoto Ozaki Chapter 20 Nishitani on Emptiness and Nothingness Yasuo Deguchi