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| Title: | Buddha is Dead
: Nietzsche & the Dawn of European Zen |
| Author: | Manu Bazzano |
| ISBN: | 1845191498 : 9781845191498 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 261 |
| Weight: | .225 Kg. |
| Published: | Sussex Academic Press - June 2006 |
| List Price: | 15.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Oriental & Indian philosophy |
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; the result is 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 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 to their fullest. 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.
Mission: Untimely (The True Task of Philosophy); Great Doubt and the Death of God; The Will to Power as Generosity; The Crooked Path of Eternity; Beyond the Dream of Change; On Nomadic Truth; The Innocence of Becoming; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
“Illuminates the common radicalism, non-conformity and insistence on honesty and integrity that underpin what is most challenging and provocative in the two traditions of Buddhism in general (and Zen Buddhism in particular) and the tradition (or anti-tradition) in Western philosophy that finds its most exultant spokesman in the figure of Friedrich Nietzsche.” -- Stephen Batchelor, author of the bestselling Buddhism Without Beliefs
