Description
Book SynopsisJason M. Wirth explores the limits and prospects of comparative philosophy as he engages Continental thinkers with East Asian Buddhist practitioners.
Trade ReviewJason Wirth has written a book that is the product of his love for both East-Asian and Western philosophy, and as such a book that bridges differences. In that respect, then, Nietzsche and Other Buddhas is an important book for an age marked by intolerance and disregard for the "other". . . and where the love of thought, spirit, and body that is indeed philosophy has an important role to play.
* Los Angeles Review of Books *
The book is rich in subtle details and inquiries. Slim though it is, this is not a book that will be read quickly and then put down as having been read. It is a demanding and yet inviting text. . . . Highly recommended.
* Choice *
Jason Wirth's Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy is a tour de force that both challenges and expands our understanding of the very practice of philosophy in general, and comparative philosophy in particular.
-- Joseph Markowski * Reading Religion *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
