Nietzsche and Other Buddhas

Jason M. Wirth

Description

In Nietzche and Other Buddhas, author Jason M. Wirth brings major East Asian Buddhist thinkers into radical dialogue with key Continental philosophers through a series of exercises that pursue what is traditionally called comparative or intercultural philosophy as he reflects on what makes such exercises possible and intelligible. The primary questions he asks are: How does this particular engagement and confrontation challenge and radicalize what is sometimes called comparative or intercultural philosophy? How does this task reconsider what is meant by philosophy? The confrontations that Wirth sets up between Dogen, Hakuin, Linji, Shinran, Nietzsche, and Deleuze ask readers to think more philosophically and globally about the nature of philosophy in general and comparative philosophy in particular. He opens up a new and challenging space of thought in and between the cutting edges of Western Continental philosophy and East Asian Buddhist practice.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy

1. Thinking about Nietzsche and Zen

2. Strange Saints (Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hakuin)

3. Convalescence (Nietzsche, James, Hakuin)

4. Nietzsche in the Pure Land (Nietzsche, Shinran, Tanabe)

5. Planomenal Nourishment (Nietzsche, Deleuze, Dōgen)

Concluding Thoughts: Pure Experience and Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy

Bibliography

Index

Sujets

• PHILOSOPHY
• Tanabe
• Indiana University Press
• Buddhism
• Eastern religion
• IUP
• Tanabe, Wakayama
• Continental philosophy
• J?do Shinsh?
• Eastern philosophy
• Eastern
• Shinran
• Ozu
• D?gen
• Institut universitaire professionnalisé
• Deleuze
• Hajime Tanabe
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Zen
• Martin Heidegger

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 04 mars 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780253039743
• Langue: English

Extrait

NIETZSCHE AND OTHER BUDDHAS
WORLD PHILOSOPHIES
Bret W. Davis, D. A. Masolo, and Alejandro Vallega, editors
NIETZSCHE AND OTHER BUDDHAS
Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy
Jason M. Wirth
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
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2019 by Jason M. Wirth
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For Elizabeth My en Sikes,
Impish Bodhisattva
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy
1 Thinking about Nietzsche and Zen
2 Strange Saints: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hakuin
3 Convalescence: Nietzsche, James, Hakuin
4 Nietzsche in the Pure Land: Nietzsche, Shinran, Tanabe
5 Planomenal Nourishment: Nietzsche, Deleuze, D gen
Concluding Thoughts: Pure Experience and Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy
Bibliography
Index
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
T HIS BOOK IS BORN OF YEARS OF BOTH S t Zen practice and valuable philosophical engagement with good books and, more important, my colleagues and students. I have learned more than I can calculate or thank. I would at least like to extend my wholehearted gratitude to my S t Zen teacher, K sh Itagaki, abbot of the Eishoji Zen training and practice facility in south Seattle; to my brother Nathan and his amazing artwork; to my beloved Dharma sisters and brothers of CoZen, especially Brian Sh d Schroeder, Bret Kanp Davis, and Erin Jien McCarthy; to my companions at PACT (Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition), especially Gerard Kuperus, Marjolein Oele, Tim Freeman, Chris Lauer, Josh Hayes, Jason Winfree, and Brian Treanor; to my cherished interlocutors in Sweden, Marcia S Cavalcante Schuback and Hans Ruin; to my many companions at the CCPC (Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle), especially David Jones and Michael Schwartz, with whom I have enjoyed spirited discussions regarding the materials and insights in this book for over two decades; to Graham Parkes whose pioneering work on both Nietzsche and comparative thinking is a sine qua non; to the poet, philosopher, and activist Gary Snyder who inadvertently inspired some of these thoughts; to Don Castro and Mark Unno, great teachers in word and deed of the Pure Land; to Sean McGrath of Memorial University in Newfoundland who pushes me hard and compassionately on these issues; and to the many members of the Seattle University EcoSangha, all of whom inspire me with the depth of their practice. Most significantly, I would like to express my gratitude to Elizabeth My en Sikes, who exemplifies the ordinary profundity of the everyday in all that she does.
May all beings flourish.
A very different version of some parts of the fourth chapter appeared as Death and Resurrection as the Eternal Return of the Pure Land: Tanabe Hajime s Metanoetic Reading of Nietzsche, in The Past s Presence: Essays on the Historicity of Philosophical Thought (S dert rn Philosophical Studies 3), edited by Marcia S Cavalcante Schuback and Hans Ruin, 185-201 (Stockholm, Sweden: S dert rns H gskola, 2006).
Partial material from the fifth chapter appeared in a different form as When Washing Rice, Know that the Water Is Your Own Life: An Essay on D gen in the Age of Fast Food, in Ontologies of Nature: Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations , edited by Gerard Kuperus and Marjolein Oele, 235-244 (Cham, Switzerland: Springer International, 2017).
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
BHL
Hermann Oldenberg, Buddha: His Life, His Doctrine, His Order , trans. William Hoey (London: Williams and Norgate, 1882).
BM
Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Basis of Morals, The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics , trans. David E. Cartwright and Edward E. Erdmann (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
C1
Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image , trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986).
C2
Gilles Deleuze, Cin ma 2: L image-temps (Paris: Les ditions de minuit, 1985); Cinema 2: The Time Image , trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989). French citation is followed by the English citation.
CN
Roger-Pol Droit, The Cult of Nothingness: The Philosophers and the Buddha , trans. David Streight and Pamela Vohnson (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
CP
Hakamaya Noriaki, Critical Philosophy versus Topical Philosophy, Pruning the Buddha Tree: The Storm over Critical Buddhism , ed. Jamie Hubbard and Paul Swanson (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai i, 1997), 56-80.
DPS
Eihei D gen, D gen s Pure Standards for the Zen Community: A Translation of Eihei Shingi, trans. Taigen Daniel Leighton and Sh haku Okumura, ed. Taigen Daniel Leighton (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996).
DR
Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition , trans. Paul Patton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994).
EN
Michel Mohr, Emerging from Nonduality: K an Practice in the Rinzai Tradition since Hakuin, The K an: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism , ed. Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 244-279.
ERN
Graham Parkes, The Early Reception of Nietzsche s Philosophy in Japan, in Nietzsche and Asian Thought , ed. Graham Parkes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), 177-199.
ES
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Essential Schopenhauer , ed. Wolfgang Schirmacher (New York: Harper, 2010).
G
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (1887), trans. Maudemarie Clark and Alan J. Swensen (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998).
GM
Arthur Schopenhauer, Grundlage der Moral, Arthur Schopenhauers S mmtliche Werke , six volumes, 2nd edition, ed. Julius Frauenst dt (Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1891), volume 4.
HC
Hakuin Ekaku, Zen Words for the Heart: Hakuin s Commentary on the Heart S tra , trans. Norman Waddell (Boston: Shambhala, 1996).
HDS
Eihei D gen, The Heart of D gen s Sh b genz , trans. Norman Waddell and Abe Masao (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002).
HP
Hakuin Ekaku, Hakuin s Precious Mirror Cave: A Zen Miscellany , ed. and trans. Norman Waddell (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2009).
IG
Nishida Kitar , An Inquiry into the Good (1911), trans. Abe Masao and Christopher Ives (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990).
KSA
Friedrich Nietzsche, Kritische Studienausgabe , ed. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch and Walter de Gruyter, 1980). Cited by volume number and then page number.
LS
Scr i pture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma , trans. Leon Hurvitz (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976).
N
N g rjuna, N g rjuna s Middle Way ( M lamadhyamakak rik ), trans. and ed. Mark Siderits and Sh ry Katsura (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2013).
NAP
Arthur C. Danto, Nietzsche as Philosopher (New York: Macmillan, 1965).
NH
Graham Parkes, Nietzsche and Zen Master Hakuin on the Roles of Emotion and Passion, Nietzsche and the Gods , ed. Weaver Santaniello (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001), 115-134.
NIH
Nothing Is Hidden: Essays on Zen Master D gen s Instructions for the Cook, ed. Jisho Warner, Sh haku Okumura, John McRae, and Taigen Daniel Leighton (New York: Weatherhill, 2001).
NP
Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962), trans. Hugh Tomlinson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983).
OA
Yoshida Kiju, Ozu s Anti-Cinema , trans. Daisuke Miyao and Kyoko Hirano (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003).
PM
Tanabe Hajime, Philosophy as Metanoetics , trans. Takeuchi Yoshinori, Valdo Viglielmo, and James W. Heisig (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987).
PS
Bryan Magee, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer , rev. ed. (Clarendon: Oxford University Press, 1998).
RE
Robert H. Sharf, The Rhetoric of Experience and the Study of Religion, Journal of Consciousness Studies 7.11-12 (2000).
RL
The Record of Linji , trans. Ruth Fuller Sasaki, ed. Thomas Y h Kirchner (Honolulu: University Press of Hawai i, 2009).
RVE
Eihei D gen, Sh b genz : La r serve visuelle des v nements dans leur justesse , ed. and trans. Nakamura Ry ji and Ren de Ceccatty (Paris: ditions de la diff rence, 1980).
S
Eihei D gen, Sh b genz ( Treasury of the True Dharma Eye ), ed. Kazuaki Tanahashi (Boston: Shambhala, 2010).
SON
Nishitani Keiji, The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism , trans. Graham Parkes and Aihara Setsuko (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990).
T
Shinran, Tannish ( A Record in Lament of Divergences ), The Collected Works of Shinran , trans. Dennis Hirota, Hisao Inagaki, Michio Tokunaga, and Ryushin Uryuzu (Kyoto: J do Shinsh Hongwanji-ha, 1997), 659-682.
TB
Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed: An