Beyond Personal Identity: Dogen, Nishida, and a Phenomenology of No-Self / Edition 1

by Gereon Kopf

Overview

Applies Dogen Kigen's religious philosophy and the philosophy of Nishida Kitaro to the philosophical problem of personal identity, probing the applicability of the concept of non-self to the philosophical problems of selfhood, otherness, and temporality which culminate in the conundrum of personal identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700712175
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/19/2001
Series:	Routledge Studies in Asian Religion
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction, Methodological Considerations PART ONE: Personal Identity Revisited CHAPTER ONE: The Problem of Personal Identity PART TWO: Zen Buddhism and Phenomenology on Self-Awareness CHAPTER TWO: Selfhood CHAPTER THREE: Otherness CHAPTER FOUR: Continuity of Experience CHAPTER FIVE: Temporality PART THREE: Zen Conceptions of Identity CHAPTER SIX: A Zen Phenomenology of Experience CHAPTER SEVEN: Personhood as Presencing

Editorial Reviews

'Gereon Kopf ... does an outstanding job in taking on the challenge of relating the complex thought of Japanese giants Dogen and Nishida to various Western conceptions of the person.' - Philosophy East and West

'Kopf ... makes a significant contribution to east-west dialogue.' - Religious Studies Review

'Gereon Kopf ... does an outstanding job in taking on the challenge of relating the complex thought of Japanese giants Dogen and Nishida to various Western conceptions of the person.' - Philosophy East and West

'Kopf ... makes a significant contribution to east-west dialogue.' - Religious Studies Review

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