Nietzsche and Other Buddhas (eBook)

1. This book is brings Nietzsche and Continental Philosophy together into conversation with Japanese Mahayana Buddha Dharma. It demonstrates the relevance of Nietzsche for Zen practice.

2. Intersections between Asian and Continental thought have been very productive for philosophy. More and more scholars are turning to philosophies outside of the European tradition.

3. Jason M. Wirth is a senior scholar who is well known for his philosophical contributions in Continental thought and Asian thought.

He opens up a new and challenging space of thought in and between the cutting edges of Western Continental philosophy and East Asian Buddhist practice.

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"e;A tour de force that both challenges and expands our understanding of the very practice of philosophy . . . and comparative philosophy in particular"e; (Joseph Markowski, Reading Religion).In Nietzche and Other Buddhas, author Jason M. Wirth brings major East Asian Buddhist thinkers into radical dialogue with key Continental philosophers through a series of exercises that pursue what is traditionally called comparative or intercultural philosophy. In the process, he reflects on what makes such exercises possible and intelligible. The primary questions Wirth asks are: How does this particular engagement and confrontation challenge and radicalize what is sometimes called comparative or intercultural philosophy? How does this task reconsider what is meant by philosophy? The confrontations that Wirth sets up between Dogen, Hakuin, Linji, Shinran, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, James, and Deleuze consider the nature of philosophy-and especially comparative philosophy-from a global perspective. This global perspective in turn opens up a new and challenging space of thought within and between the cutting edges of Western Continental philosophy and East Asian Buddhist practice.