Nothingness and emptiness : a Buddhist engagement with the ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre / Stephen W. Laycock.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.

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Nothingness and Emptiness: A Buddhist Engagement with the Ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Radiance of the Lotus -- 1. Dancing with the Light -- 2. Light Upon Light -- 3. Questioning Sartrean Questions -- 4. Nothingness -- 5. Emptiness -- 6. Making Nothing of Something -- 7. The Myth of Repletion -- 8. The Possibility of the Possible -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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Annotation Laycock (philosophy, University of Toledo) seeks to resolve the incoherence implicit in the Sartean conception of nothingness by opening it to a Buddhist vision of emptiness. Rooted in the Madhyamika dialectic and an articulated meditative (zen) phenomenology, the book examines the assumptions that sustain Sartre's early phenomenological ontology and questions his theoretical elaboration of consciousness as "nothingness." Laycock argues that, in addition to the "relative" nothingness (the for-itself) defined against the positivity and plenitude of the in-itself, Sartre's view requires, but repudiates, an "absolute" nothingness--which Buddhism supplies in the form of "emptiness". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

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