In _Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self_, André van der
Braak engages Nietzsche in a dialogue with four representatives of the
Buddhist Zen tradition: Nagarjuna (c. 150-250), Linji (d. 860), Dogen
(1200-1253), and Nishitani (1900-1990). In doing so, he reveals
Nietzsche's thought as a philosophy of continuous self-overcoming, in
which even the notion of "self" has been overcome. Van der Braak
begins by analyzing Nietzsche's relationship to Buddhism and status as
a transcultural thinker, recalling research on Nietzsche and Zen to
date and setting out the basic argument of the study. He continues by
examining the practices of self-overcoming in Nietzsche and Zen,
comparing Nietzsche's radical skepticism with that of Nagarjuna and
comparing Nietzsche's approach to truth to Linji's. Nietzsche's
methods of self-overcoming are compared to Dogen's _zazen_, or sitting
meditation practice, and Dogen's notion of forgetting the self. These
comparisons and others build van der Braak's case for a criticism of
Nietzsche informed by the ideas of Zen Buddhism and a criticism of Zen
Buddhism seen through the Western lens of Nietzsche - coalescing into
one world philosophy. This treatment, focusing on one of the most
fruitful areas of research within contemporary comparative and
intercultural philosophy, will be useful to Nietzsche scholars,
continental philosophers, and comparative philosophers.
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Self Overcoming Without a Self
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ISBN
9781978757660
Publisert
2025
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Bloomsbury USA
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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