The formless self / Joan Stambaugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stambaugh, Joan, 1932-2013.

Contributor:

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self (Philosophy).

Philosophy, Japanese.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Dōgen, 1200-1253.

Dōgen.

Hisamatsu, Shin'ichi, 1889-1980.

Hisamatsu, Shin'ichi.

Nishitani, Keiji, 1900-1990.

Nishitani, Keiji.

Physical Description:

xii, 174 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [1999]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Dogen 1

The Question of the Self 1

Activity of the Self 5

The Self as Illusion and Enlightenment 14

The Self as Buddha-nature 21

Temporality and Impermanence 28

2. Hisamatsu 55

Dialogues with Tillich 55

Oriental Nothingness 71

The Formless Self 81

"Critique of the 'Unconscious'" 92

3. Nishitani 99

The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism 99

Religion and Nothingness 101.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-172) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

ISBN:

0791441490

0791441504

OCLC:

39607135