Double Exposure

Cutting Across Buddhist and Western Discourses

By:

Bernard Faure

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Hardback

Series:

Cultural Memory in the Present

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This book explores the possible relations between Western types of rationality and Buddhism. It also examines some clichés about Buddhism and questions the old antinomies of Western culture ("faith and reason," or "idealism and materialism"). The use of the Buddhist notion of the Two Truths as a hermeneutic device leads to a double or multiple exposure that will call into question our mental habits and force us to ask questions differently, to think "in a new key." Double Exposure is somewhat of an oddity. Written by a specialist for nonspecialists, it is not a book of vulgarization. Although it aims at a better integration of Western and Buddhist thought, it is not an exercise in comparative philosophy or religion. It is neither a contribution to Buddhist scholarship in the narrow sense, nor a contribution to some vague Western "spirituality." Cutting across traditional disciplines and blurring established genres, it provides a leisurely but deeply insightful stroll through philosophical and literary texts, dreams, poetry, and paradoxes.

Author Biography:

Bernard Faure is George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is the author, most recently, of The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism (Stanford1997).

Release date NZ

November 11th, 2003

Author

Bernard Faure

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Contributor

Translated by Janet Lloyd

Pages

216

Series

Cultural Memory in the Present

Dimensions

171x221x19

ISBN-13

9780804743471

Product ID

25081438

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