TY  - GEN
T1  - Zen and the art of postmodern philosophy : two paths of liberation from the representational mode of thinking
A1  - Olson, Carl
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - State University of New York Press
YR  - 2000
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm48137961
AB  - This book examines and compares the philosophical positions of various postmodern thinkers and Zen Buddhist philosophers on: language and play; modes of thinking; skepticism and doubt; self and other; time and death; nihilism and metaphysics; and the conception of the end of philosophy. The Zen thinkers dealt with are Dogen and Nishitani, and the Western thinkers are Derrida, Lacan, Heidegger, Lyotard, Foucault, Deleuze and Guatarri, Kristeva, and Levinas. Although each share similar notions concerning the shortcomings of representational thinking, major differences still exist. By clarifying these differences, Olson counters the tendency to overtly assert or covertly imply that postmodern and Zen philosophies are moving in the same direction. Some postmodern thinkers and Zen Buddhist philosophers share common philosophical ground with regard to a mutual philosophical attack and attempt to overcome the perceived shortcomings of the representational mode of thinking that conceives of the mind like a mirror and assumes a correspondence between appearance and reality that is supported by a metaphysical structure.
OP  - 309
CN  - BQ9268.6 . O46 2000eb
SN  - 0585375046
SN  - 9780585375045
SN  - 0791492214
SN  - 9780791492215
SN  - 0791446530
KW  - Zen Buddhism : Philosophy.
KW  - Postmodernism : Religious aspects : Zen Buddhism.
KW  - Bouddhisme zen : Philosophie.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Buddhist.
KW  - Zen Buddhism : Philosophy
ER  -