Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism / edited by Jin Y. Park and Gereon Kopf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Park, Jin Y.

Kopf, Gereon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers including Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. The book offers an intercultural philosophy in which opposites intermingle in a chiasmic relationship, and which brings new understanding regarding the self and the self's relation with others in a globalized and multicultural world.

Contents:

Introduction: philosophy, nonphilosophy, and comparative philosophy / Jin Y. Park and Gereon Kopf

Body : self in the flesh of the world

Merleau-Pontean "flesh" and its Buddhist interpretation / Hyong-hyo Kim

Merleau-Ponty's theory of the body and the doctrine of the five skandhas / Yasuo Yuasa

How the tree sees me : sentience and insentience in Tiantai and Merleau-Ponty / Brook Ziporyn

The human body as a boundary symbol : a comparison of Merleau-Ponty and Dōgen / Carl Olson

Space : thinking and being in the chiasm of visibility

The double : Merleau-Ponty and Chinul on thinking and questioning / Jin Y. Park

The notion of the "words that speak the truth" in Merleau-Ponty and Shinran / Toru Funaki

Self in space : Nishida philosophy and phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty / Bernard Stevens

Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne, and the basho of the visible / Gerald Cipriani

"Place of nothingness" and the dimension of visibility : Nishida, Merleau-Ponty, and Huineng / David Brubaker

The world : ethics of emptiness, ethics of the flesh

The flesh of the world is emptiness and emptiness is the flesh of the world, and their ethical implications / Glen A. Mazis

Merleau-Ponty and Nāgārjuna : enlightenment, ethics, and politics / Michael Berman

Ki-energy : underpinning religion and ethics / Shigenori Nagatomo

Merleau-Ponty and Asian philosophy : the double walk of Buddhism and Daoism / Jay Goulding.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-300) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-282-49503-8

9786612495038

0-7391-4077-9

OCLC:

592756338