Zen and the Modern World : : A Third Sequel to Zen and Western Thought / / Masao Abe; ed. by Steven Heine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Abe, Masao,
• HerausgeberIn: Heine, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (187 p.)

Written by one of Japan's foremost contemporary thinkers and scholars, Zen and the Modern World is the third in a series of essay collections on Zen Buddhism as seen in the context of Western thought. As a leading representative of the Kyoto School, which has sought a critical, comparative linking of Eastern and Western thought, Abe has based his approach on constructive, mutually respectful yet critical intellectual interaction and dialogue with some of the leading figures in the West (including Paul Tillich, Hans Küng, and Eugene Borowitz) as well as dozens of colleagues, students, and disciples. Together with the previous volumes, this work examines and exemplifies some key features of Kyoto School thought. While the essays presented here should be read in light of the socio-political criticism that has since been lodged against the Kyoto School and, more particularly, its founder Nishida Kitarò, most of them were written prior to the recent discussions and focus on issues of comparative philosophy and religious thought outside the contours of the debate. This should not, however, limit their approach to the earlier historical context.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction Multiple Levels of Significance of Abe's Works -- Part I: Zen and Society -- 1. Two Types of Unity and Religious Pluralism -- 2. The Meaning of Life in Buddhism -- 3. Ethics and Social Responsibility in Buddhism -- 4. Faith and Self-Awakening: A Search for the Fundamental Category Covering All Religious Life -- 5. Religion and Science in the Global Age: Their Essential Character and Mutual Relationship -- Part II: Nishida's View of Reality and Zen Philosophy -- Editor's Introduction to Part II Philosophy of Nothingness -- 6. Nishida's Philosophy of "Place" -- 7. Philosophy, Religion, and Aesthetics in Nishida and Whitehead -- 8. The Problem of "Inverse Correspondence" in the Philosophy of Nishida: Comparing Nishida with Tanabe -- Part III :A Contemporary Approach to Zen Self-Awakening -- 9. Evil, Sin, Falsity, and the Dynamics of Faith -- 10. Toward the Establishment of a Cosmology of Awakening -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- About the Editor