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The Formless Self

The Formless Self

Stambaugh, Joan

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0791441504
ISBN13: 9780791441503
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: May 13 1999
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.95
Language: English

Bringing together the depth insights of eastern and western traditions, this book places the topic of the self in a new context.

Gathering and interpreting material that is not readily available elsewhere, this book discusses the thought of the Japanese Buddhist philosophers Dogen, Hisamatsu, and Nishitani. Stambaugh develops ideas about the self culminating in the concept of the Formless Self as formulated by Hisamatsu in his book The Fullness of Nothingness and the essay The Characteristics of Oriental Nothingness, and further explicated by Nishitani in his book Religion and Nothingness. These works show that Oriental nothingness has nothing to do with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western concept of nihilism. Instead, it is a positive phenomenon, enabling things to be.

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