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Nothingness and desire : an East-West philosophical antiphony / James W. Heisig.
LIBRA B799 .H38 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heisig, James W., 1944- author.
- Series:
- Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Comparative.
- Nothing (Philosophy).
- Desire (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- vi, 193 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- The guiding fictions
- Desire and its objects
- Desire without a proper object
- Nothingness and being
- The nothingness of desire and the desire for nothingness
- Defining self through no-self
- Getting over one's self
- The mind of nothingness
- The self with its desires
- No-self with its desire
- No-self and self-transcendence
- God and death
- From God to nothingness
- God and life
- Displacing the personal God
- Towards an impersonal god
- The absolute of relatedness
- The god of nothingness
- The place of morality
- Convivial harmony
- Customs, habits, decisions
- Morality and religion
- The moral subject in love
- The experience of happiness
- Giving and receiving
- The body as property
- Detachment
- Orthoaesthesis
- Consumption
- Sufficiency
- An elusive horizon
- Rewriting the history of philosophy
- Philosophical antiphony
- Cultural disarmament
- Philosophy beyond the divide.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780824838850
- 0824838858
- 9780824838867
- 0824838866
- OCLC:
- 828834207
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