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Nietzsche and Zen
Self Overcoming Without a Self
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2011
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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.
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2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6550-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6884-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
214
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Key to References No access
Introduction A Summary of Arguments No access
Chapter 1 Nietzsche’s Buddhism No access
Chapter 2 Nietzsche and Zen—Previous Research No access
Chapter 3 Nietzsche and Zen as Philosophies ofSelf-overcoming No access
Chapter 4 Nietzsche and Nāgārjuna on the Self-overcoming of the Will to Truth No access
Chapter 5 Nietzsche and Linji on Truth as Embodiment No access
Chapter 6 Nietzsche and Dōgen on the Self-cultivationof the Body No access
Chapter 7 The Self-overcoming of the Ego No access
Chapter 8 The Self-overcoming of Redemption and Enlightenment No access
Chapter 9 The Child No access
Chapter 10 Nishitani on Nietzsche: the Self-overcomingof the Will to Power No access
Chapter 11 Exoteric and Esoteric No access
Chapter 12 Revaluation of All Values No access
Epilogue: Toward a Philosophy of the Future No access Pages 191 - 192
