Jae-Seong Lee

Postmodern Ethics, Emptiness, and Literature

Encounters between East and West

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Produktbeschreibung

An interdisciplinary study of postmodern ethics and literary criticism from the perspective of Chan/Seon/Zen Buddhism, this book combines the tradition of Western metaphysics and its contact with Asian thought, contemporary Western thought, Buddhism, Taoism (to a minor extent), and literary criticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9781498519205
• ISBN-10: 1498519202
• Artikelnr.: 43747954

Autorenporträt

Jae-seong Lee

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER I Postmodernism through Levinasian Ethics to Buddhist Philosophy
CHAPTER II Levinasian Ethics and Other Postmodern Ethical Theories
CHAPTER III Positivity toward Infinity: Levinas, Buddhism, and Literature
CHAPTER IV Searching for a Breakthrough to the No Self or Real I:
Ch'an/Seon/Zen, Levinasian Ethics, and Literary Reading
CHAPTER V A Process of Awakening in a Religious Narrative: The Book of Job
CHAPTER VI Gothic Excess as the Trace of the Other or the Real I: A
Levinasian and Buddhist Approach to the Terror Mood of Dracula
CHAPTER VII Desire for the Infinity of the Other and the Excess of the
Terror Mood in Frankenstein
Conclusion: Time for the True Encounter between East and West