Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy (World Philosophies) - Softcover

Jason M. Wirth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253039711 ISBN 13: 9780253039712

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2019

Synopsis

In Nietzche and Other Buddhas, author Jason M. Wirth brings major East Asian Buddhist thinkers into radical dialogue with key Continental philosophers through a series of exercises that pursue what is traditionally called comparative or intercultural philosophy as he reflects on what makes such exercises possible and intelligible. The primary questions he asks are: How does this particular engagement and confrontation challenge and radicalize what is sometimes called comparative or intercultural philosophy? How does this task reconsider what is meant by philosophy? The confrontations that Wirth sets up between Dogen, Hakuin, Linji, Shinran, Nietzsche, and Deleuze ask readers to think more philosophically and globally about the nature of philosophy in general and comparative philosophy in particular. He opens up a new and challenging space of thought in and between the cutting edges of Western Continental philosophy and East Asian Buddhist practice.

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Review:

By probing the relationship between the extra-philosophical grounds of philosophy and philosophy itself, Jason M. Wirth puts forward a fundamental meditation on the origin and nature of philosophical activity. Rather than an exercise in comparative philosophy in the traditional sense, he reflects on what makes comparative philosophy possible and intelligible.

Author: Andre van der Braak, author of Nietzsche and Zen: Self Overcoming without a Self

From the Author:

Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He is author of Mountains, Rivers and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis, Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking, and Schelling’s Practice of the Wild: Time, Art, Imagination. He is editor of (with Bret Davis and Brian Schroeder) Continental and Japanese Philosophy: Comparative Approaches to the Kyoto School.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0253039711
• ISBN 13: 9780253039712
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208