Buddhism and Cultural Studies: A Profession of Faith

by Edwin Ng

This book explores the reciprocity between Buddhist, Derridean, and Foucauldian understandings about ethics, subjectivity, and ontological contingency, to investigate the ethical and political potential of insight meditation practice. The book is narrated from the perspective of a postcolonial 'Western Buddhist' convert who, despite growing up in Singapore where Buddhism was a part of his disaporic 'Chinese' ancestral heritage, only embraced Buddhism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137549890
• ISBN13: 9781137549891
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.4"