Hermeneutics, Education, Religious, Buddhist Philosophy, General & Miscellaneous Religious Philosophy, Epistemology (Theory of Knowledge), Zen Buddhism, Buddhist Doctrine
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Overview
Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan/Zen from the standpoint of postmodern human sciences and literary criticism, challenging this inversion of traditional "Orientalist" discourse: whether the Other is caricatured or idealized, ethnocentric premises marginalize important parts of Chan thought. Questioning the assumptions of "Easterners" as well, including those of the charismatic D. T. Suzuki, Faure demonstrates how both West and East have come to overlook significant components of a complex and elusive tradition.Editorials
Journal of Japanese Studies
Thoughtful and thought-provoking. After reading Faure's contributions in The Rhetoric of Immediacy and Insights and Oversights, none of us working the fields of Zen, Buddhist studies, or historical and cultural studies can go about our work in quite the same way. . . . Our thinking [is] reshaped by the topics he raises and the approaches he uses.— Martin Collcutt
The Journal of Asian History
A highly sensitive and richly textured re-examination of the Chan/Zen tradition. [Faure] is to be congratulated for having provided us with just such a fruitful (and by no means temporary) scholarship that enriches our understanding of Chan/Zen. It makes us keenly aware that Chan/Zen is . . . a continuously evolving entity that can withstand the most rigorous and critical scholarly inquiry.— Richard Shek
The Journal of Asian History
A highly sensitive and richly textured re-examination of the Chan/Zen tradition. [Faure] is to be congratulated for having provided us with just such a fruitful (and by no means temporary) scholarship that enriches our understanding of Chan/Zen. It makes us keenly aware that Chan/Zen is . . . a continuously evolving entity that can withstand the most rigorous and critical scholarly inquiry.Journal of Japanese Studies
Thoughtful and thought-provoking. After reading Faure's contributions in The Rhetoric of Immediacy and Insights and Oversights, none of us working the fields of Zen, Buddhist studies, or historical and cultural studies can go about our work in quite the same way. . . . Our thinking [is] reshaped by the topics he raises and the approaches he uses.Book Details
Published
June 8, 1993
Publisher
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, c1993.
Pages
340
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780691069487