{"product_id":"merleau-ponty-and-buddhism-9780739118269","title":"Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael P. Berman | David Brubaker | Gerald Cipriani\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMerleau-Ponty and Buddhism\u003c\/i\u003e explores a new mode of philosophizing through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical traditions, Merleau-Ponty proposes a philosophy in which the traditional opposites are encountered through mutual penetration. Likewise, a Buddhist worldview is articulated in the theory of dependent co-arising, or the middle path, which comprehends the world and beings in the third space, where the subject and the object, or eternalism and annihilation, exist independent of one another. The thirteen essays in this volume explore this third space in their discussions of Merleau-Ponty's concepts of the intentional arc, the flesh of the world, and the chiasm of visibility in connection with the Buddhist doctrine of no-self and the five aggregates, the Tiantai Buddhist concept of threefold truth, Zen Buddhist \u003ci\u003ehuatou\u003c\/i\u003e meditation, the invocation of the Amida Buddha in True Pure Land Buddhism, and Nishida's concept of \u003ci\u003ebasho\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his philosophical project, Merleau-Ponty makes vigorous efforts to challenge the boundaries that divide philosophy and non-philosophy, the East and the West, experience and concepts, the subject and the object, and body and mind. Combining the Eastern philosophical tradition of Buddhism with Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, \u003ci\u003eMerleau-Ponty and Buddhism\u003c\/i\u003e offers an intercultural philosophy in which opposites intermingle in a chiasmic relationship, and which brings new understanding regarding the self and the self's relation with others in a globalized and multicultural world.","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47603645513879,"sku":"9780739118269","price":6383.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780739118269.webp?v=1775016682","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/merleau-ponty-and-buddhism-9780739118269","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}