Nothingness and Emptiness by Steven W Laycock
This sustained and distinctively Buddhist challenge to the ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness resolves the incoherence implicit in the Sartrean conception of nothingness by opening to a Buddhist vision of emptiness. Rooted in the insights of Madhyamika dialectic and an articulated meditative (zen) phenomenology, Nothingness and Emptiness uncovers and examines the assumptions that sustain Sartre's early phenomenological ontology and questions his theoretical elaboration of consciousness as nothingness. Laycock demonstrates that, in addition to a relative nothingness (the for-itself) defined against the positivity and plenitude of the in-itself, Sartre's ontology requires, but also repudiates, a conception of absolute nothingness (the Buddhist emptiness), and is thus, as it stands, logically unstable, perhaps incoherent. The author is not simply critical; he reveals the junctures at which Sartrean ontology appeals for a Buddhist conception of emptiness and offers the needed supplement."Numerous authors have contributed to the phenomenology/Buddhism dialogue, but Laycock's work is perhaps the most detailed and profound meditation on their convergence to dateThe book's major contribution is a reassessment of phenomenology—especially that of Sartre—in a global philosophical context. Individuals who care about the development and application of phenomenology will want to own this book." — Frederic L. Bender, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
"This book makes an important contribution to comparative phenomenology." — J. N. Mohanty, coeditor of Phenomenology and Indian Philosophy
Steven W. Laycock is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toledo and the author of Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Mind: Buddhist Reflections on Western Phenomenology, coeditor (with James G. Hart) of Essays in Phenomenological Theology, also published by SUNY Press, and author of Foundations for a Phenomenological Theology.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780791449097 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791449092 |
| Title | Nothingness and Emptiness |
| Author | Steven W Laycock |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 2001-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 223 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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