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Nietzsche and Zen: self-overcoming without a self

By Nietzsche , Friedrich Wilhelm;Braak , Andre van der

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.;Lexington Books
Year
2013
ISBN
9780739165508, 9780739168844, 073916550X, 9780739184448, 073918444X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2309932 bytes)
Series
Studies in comparative philosophy and religion
Edition
First paperback edition
Pages
xxxv, 213 pages ; 23 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

In Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self, André van der Braak engages Nietzsche in a dialogue with four representatives of the Buddhist Zen tradition: Nagarjuna (c. 150-250), Linji (d. 860), Dogen (1200-1253), and Nishitani (1900-1990).In doing so, he reveals Nietzsche's thought as a philosophy of continuous self-overcoming, in which even the notion of "self" has been overcome. Van der Braak begins by analyzing Nietzsche's relationship to Buddhism and status as a transcultural thinker,recalling research on Nietzsche and Zen to date and setting out the basic argument of the study. He continues by examining the practices of self-overcoming in Nietzsche and Zen, comparing Nietzsche's radical skepticism with that of Nagarjuna and comparingNietzsche's approach to truth to Linji's. Nietzsche's methods of self-overcoming are compared to Dogen's zazen, or sitting meditation practice, and Dogen's notion of forgetting the self. These comparisons and others build van der...

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