A Critique of Western Buddhism

Ruins of the Buddhist Real

Glenn Wallis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781474283557 (ISBN)

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What are we to make of Western Buddhism? This open access book argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary wellness industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought. Glenn Wallis shows that with concepts such as vanishing, nihility, extinction, contingency, and no-self, Buddhism, like all potent systems of thought, articulates a notion of the “real.” Raw, unflinching acceptance of this real is held by Buddhism to be at the very core of human “awakening.” Yet these preeminent human truths are universally shored up against in contemporary Buddhist practice, contravening the very heart of Buddhism.

The author’s critique of Western Buddhism is threefold. It is immanent, in emerging out of Buddhist thought but taking it beyond what it itself publicly concedes; negative, in employing the “democratizing” deconstructive methods of François Laruelle’s non-philosophy; and re-descriptive, in applying Laruelle’s concept of philofiction. Through applying resources of Continental philosophy to Western Buddhism, A Critique of Western Buddhism suggests a possible practice for our time, an "anthropotechnic", or religion transposed from its seductive, but misguiding, idealist haven.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Glenn Wallis is an independent scholar and Director of Incite Seminars in Philadelphia, USA. He has taught at several universities, including Brown University, USA, and the University of Georgia, USA. His books include Cruel Theory/Sublime Practice: Toward a Revaluation of Buddhism (2012) and Mediating the Power of Buddhas (2001).

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part One
Introduction: Raise the Curtain on the Theater of Western Buddhism!
1. The Snares of Wisdom
2. Specters of the Real
3. First Names of the Buddhist Real
Part Two
4. Non-Buddhism
5. Immanent Practice
Part Three
6. Buddhofiction
7. Meditation in Ruin
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-13	9781474283557 / 9781474283557
Zustand	Neuware