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Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism

Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism

Paperback

Series: Trios

Religion General Buddhism

ISBN10: 022623326X
ISBN13: 9780226233260
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 16 2015
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism--a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy. This volume fills that gap, focusing on nothing--essential to Buddhism, of course, but also a key concept in critical theory from Hegel and Marx through deconstruction, queer theory, and contemporary speculative philosophy. Through an elaboration of emptiness in both critical and Buddhist traditions; an examination of the problem of praxis in Buddhism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis; and an explication of a Buddhaphobia that is rooted in modern anxieties about nothingness, Nothing opens up new spaces in which the radical cores of Buddhism and critical theory are renewed and revealed.

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