André van der Braak

Nietzsche and Zen (eBook, PDF)

Self Overcoming Without a Self

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 comparing Nietzsche'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 Braak's case for a criticism of Nietzsche informed by the ideas of Zen Buddhism and a criticism of Zen Buddhism seen through the Western lens of Nietzsche - coalescing into one world philosophy. This treatment, focusing on one of the most fruitful areas of research within contemporary comparative and intercultural philosophy, will be useful to Nietzsche scholars, continental philosophers, and comparative philosophers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978757660
• Artikelnr.: 74390607

Autorenporträt

André van der Braak is research associate at Radboud University, Nijmegen.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: a Summary of Arguments Part 3
Part 1. Setting the Stage Chapter 4 Chapter 1. Nietzsche's Buddhism Chapter
5 Chapter 2. Nietzsche and Zen - Previous Research Chapter 6 Chapter 3.
Nietzsche and Zen as Philosophies of Self-overcoming Part 7 Part 2.
Practices of Self-Overcoming Chapter 8 Chapter 4. Nietzsche and Nagarjuna
on the Self-overcoming of the Will to Truth Chapter 9 Chapter 5. Nietzsche
and Linji on Truth as Embodiment Chapter 10 Chapter 6. Nietzsche and Dogen
on the Self-cultivation of the Body Chapter 11 Chapter 7. The
Self-overcoming of the Ego Part 12 Part 3. Enlightenment Chapter 13 Chapter
8. The Self-overcoming of Redemption and Enlightenment Chapter 14 Chapter
9. The Child Chapter 15 Chapter 10. Nishitani on Nietzsche: the
Self-overcoming of the Will to Power Part 16 Part 4. The Self-overcoming of
Philosophy Chapter 17 Chapter 11. Exoteric and Esoteric Chapter 18 Chapter
12. Revaluation of All Values Chapter 19 Epilogue: Toward a Philosophy of
the Future