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45Buddhist Responses to GlobalizationLexington Books. 2014.This interdisciplinary collection of essays highlights the relevance of Buddhist doctrine and practice to issues of globalization. From philosophical, religious, historical, and political perspectives, the authors show that Buddhism—arguably the world’s first transnational religion—is a rich resource for navigating todays interconnected world
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322The Eternal Recurrence of the Same as the Gift of Difference: Naming the Enigma, the Enigma of NamesPoMo Magazine 2 (1): 31-46. 1996.Published in PoMo Magazine vol. 2, nr. 1 (Spring/Summer 1996) during my years as a grad student at the New School. I examine Nietzsche's presentation of the eternal recurrence, and discuss its interpretations by Heidegger, Bataille, Derrida, Klossowski, Stambaugh, and Vattimo. I will be returning to Nietzsche in the future.
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1258Introduction to Nakamura Yūjirō and his WorkSocial Imaginaries 1 (1): 71-82. 2015.In Social Imaginaries, vol. 1, nr. 1 (Spring 2015) due out in May 2015.
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48Praxis of the Middle: Self and No-Self in Early BuddhismInternational Philosophical Quarterly 45 (4): 517-535. 2005.This paper considers the controversy surrounding the Buddhist doctrine of “no-self” (anattā, anātman), and especially the question of whether the Buddha himself meant by it unequivocally the ontological denial of the self. The emergence of this doctrine is connected with the Buddha’s attempt to forge a “middle way” that avoids the extreme views of “eternalism” in regards to the soul and “annihilationism” of the soul at bodily death. By looking at the earliest works of the Pāli canon, three of th…Read more
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643Anontology and the Issue of Being and Nothing in Nishida KitarōIn JeeLoo Liu & Douglas L. Berger (eds.), Nothingness in Asian Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 263-283. 2014.This chapter will explicate what Nishida means by “nothing” (mu, 無), as well as “being” (yū, 有), through an exposition of his concept of the “place of nothing” (mu no basho). We do so through an investigation of his exposition of “the place of nothing” vis-àvis the self, the world, and God, as it shows up in his epistemology, metaphysics, theology and religious ethics during the various periods of his oeuvre – in other words, his understanding of nothingness that he takes to be the root of the s…Read more
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