| Description |
x, 261 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Mission : untimely : the true task of philosophy -- Pt. 2. Great doubt and the death of God -- Pt. 3. The will to power as generosity -- Pt. 4. The crooked path of eternity : time and the eternal return -- Pt. 5. Beyond the dream of change : towards a Zen psychology -- Pt. 6. On nomadic truth -- Pt. 7. The innocence of becoming |
| Summary |
"Drawing on Zen as well as on Nietzsche's thought and its ramifications in and for western culture, this book is a fervent call for a re-visioning of philosophy as vocation. The author is critical of the status quo and committed to intellectual integrity; he revisions philosophy as a creative and adventurous enterprise which is no longer exclusively identified with academia or with the methodology of logic. Filtered through Nietzsche's hammer - by which he sounded out gods old and new - Buddhism in the West can avoid the pitfalls which emerged during its gestation period in the twentieth century: otherworldly spiritualism, conservatism, denial of the body. The philosophy and the psychology of European Zen advocated by Manu Bazzano in Buddha is Dead: Nietzsche and the Dawn of European Zen is an unconditional affirmation of living-and-dying |
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It is an extraordinary fertile viewpoint that will be appreciated by all those who are interested in Eastern philosophy and religions, and who seek life-affirming wisdom."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243) and index |
| Subject |
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
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Buddhist philosophy.
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Philosophy -- History -- 20th century.
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Zen Buddhism -- Doctrines.
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| LC no. |
2005037865 |
| ISBN |
1845191498 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781845191498 paperback alkaline paper |
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