Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism

by Jin Y. Park

Book Overview

Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers including Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. The book offers an intercultural philosophy in which opposites intermingle in a chiasmic relationship, and which brings new understanding regarding the self and the self's relation with others in a globalized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739118269
• ISBN13: 9780739118269
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"