"A tour de force that both challenges and expands our understanding of the very practice of philosophy... and comparative philosophy in particular" (Joseph Markowski, Reading Religion).
In Nietzche and Other Buddhas, author Jason M. Wirth brings major East Asian Buddhist thinkers into radical dialogue with key Continental philosophers through a series of exercises that pursue what is traditionally called comparative or intercultural philosophy. In the process, he reflects on what makes such exercises possible and intelligible.
The primary questions Wirth asks are: How does this particular engagement and confrontation challenge and radicalize what is sometimes called comparative or intercultural philosophy? How does this task reconsider what is meant by philosophy?
The confrontations that Wirth sets up between Dogen, Hakuin, Linji, Shinran, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, James, and Deleuze consider the nature of philosophy-and especially comparative philosophy-from a global perspective. This global perspective in turn opens up a new and challenging space of thought within and between the cutting edges of Western Continental philosophy and East Asian Buddhist practice.
Autorentext
Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He is author of Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis; Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking; and Schelling's Practice of the Wild: Time, Art, Imagination. He is editor of (with Bret W. Davis and Brian Schroeder) Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School.
Zusammenfassung
Jason M. Wirth explores the limits and prospects of comparative philosophy as he engages Continental thinkers with East Asian Buddhist practitioners.
Inhalt
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy
1. Thinking about Nietzsche and Zen
2. Strange Saints (Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hakuin)
3. Convalescence (Nietzsche, James, Hakuin)
4. Nietzsche in the Pure Land (Nietzsche, Shinran, Tanabe)
5. Planomenal Nourishment (Nietzsche, Deleuze, Dgen)
Concluding Thoughts: Pure Experience and Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy
Bibliography
Index