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This sustained and distinctively Buddhist challenge to the ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness resolves the incoherence implicit in the Sartrean conception of nothingness by opening to a Buddhist vision of emptiness. Rooted in the insights of Madhyamika dialectic and an articulated meditative (zen) phenomenology, Nothingness and Emptiness uncovers and examines the assumptions that sustain Sartre's early phenomenological ontology and questions his theoretical elaboration of consciousness as "nothingness." Laycock demonstrates that, in addition to a "relative" nothingness (the for-itself) defined against the positivity and plenitude of the in-itself, Sartre's ontology requires, but also repudiates, a conception of "absolute" nothingness (the Buddhist "emptiness"), and is thus, as it stands, logically unstable, perhaps incoherent. The author is not simply critical; he reveals the junctures at which Sartrean ontology appeals for a Buddhist conception of emptiness and offers the needed supplement.
Acknowledgments
The Radiance of the Lotus

Chapter One. Dancing with the Light

Chapter Two. Light upon Light

Chapter Three. Questioning Sartrean Questions

Chapter Four. Nothingness

Chapter Five. Emptiness

Chapter Six. Making Nothing of Something

Chapter Seven. The Myth of Repletion

Chapter Eight. The Possibility of the Possible

References

Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

EAN13

9780791490969

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

nothingness and emptiness

a buddhist engagement with the ontology of jeanpaul sartre

steven w. laycock

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Nothingness and Emptiness

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Nothingness and Emptiness

A Buddhist Engagement with the Ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre

Steven W. Laycock

State University of New York Press, Albany

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Laycock, Steven William Nothingness and emptiness : A Buddhist engagement with the ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre / Steven W. Laycock. p. cm. ISBN 0-7914-4909-2 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-4910-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Sartre, Jean Paul, 1905– I. Title.

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2. Sunyata. 3. Nothingness (Philosophy)

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Contents

Acknowledgments The Radiance of the Lotus

Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight

References Index

Dancing with the Light Light upon Light Questioning Sartrean Questions Nothingness Emptiness Making Nothing of Something The Myth of Repletion The Possibility of the Possible

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