The Cult of Nothingness: The Philosophers and the Buddha - Softcover

Droit, Roger-Pol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807854492 ISBN 13: 9780807854495

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003

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Book by Droit RogerPol

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"A rich and theoretically sophisticated overview of the reception of Buddhism in Europe. . . . A masterful and extremely entertaining tour of the opinions of early Buddhologists and Eastward-looking philosophers. . . . [A] virtuoso presentation of European intellectual history. . . . A highly readable and deeply researched book, one that intellectual historians and philosophers interested in the volatile mix of Buddhology and European philosophy in the nineteenth century should not ignore." -- "Philosophy East & West" "Erudite and eminently readable." - "Journal of Religion" "Erudite and eminently readable." -- "Journal of Religion"

Reseña del editor:

The common Western understanding of Buddhism today envisions this major world religion as one of compassion and tolerance. But as Roger-Pol Droit reveals, this view bears little resemblance to one broadly held in the 19th century European philosophical imagination that saw Buddhism as a religion of annihilation calling for the destruction of the self. Originally published in France in 1997, this book traces the history of the Western discovery of Buddhism. Droit shows that such major philosophers as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hegel, Cousin and Renan imagined Buddhism as a religion that was, as Nietzsche put it, a ""negation of the world"". In fact, says Droit, such portrayals were more a reflaction of what was happening in Europe at the time - when the collapse of traditional European hierarchies and values, the spectre of atheism and the rise of racism and social revolts were shaking European societies - than an accurate description of Buddhist thought. Droit also reflects on how this history continues to echo in contemporary Western understandings of Buddhism. The book includes a comprehensive bibliography of books on Buddhism published in the West between 1683 and 1890.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0807854492
• ISBN 13: 9780807854495
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 278