Nothing
Three Inquiries in Buddhism
1st Edition
Published on 16. October 2015
296 pages
978-0-226-23343-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction - Marcus Boon, Eric Cazdyn, and Timothy Morton
- To Live in a Glass House is a Revolutionary Virtue Par Excellence: Marxism, Buddhism, and the Politics of Nonalignment - Marcus Boon
- Enlightenment, Revolution, Cure: The Problem of Praxis and the Radical Nothingness of the Future - Eric Cazdyn
- Buddhaphobia: Nothingness and the Fear of Things - Timothy Morton
- Glossary
