Nothingness in Asian philosophy

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. …”

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