The Formless Self

Gathering and interpreting material that is not readily available elsewhere, this book discusses the thought of the Japanese Buddhist philosophers Dogen, Hisamatsu, and Nishitani. Stambaugh develops ideas about the self culminating in the concept of the Formless Self as formulated by Hisamatsu in his book The Fullness of Nothingness and the essay The Characteristics of Oriental Nothingness, and further explicated by Nishitani in his book Religion and Nothingness. These works show that Oriental nothingness has nothing to do with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western concept of nihilism. Instead, it is a positive phenomenon, enabling things to be.

Author: Joan Stambaugh
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 05/06/1999
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.95h x 5.84w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9780791441503

About the Author
Joan Stambaugh is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College of the City University of New York. She has published extensively and is the author of The Real is Not the Rational; The Finitude of Being; The Other Nietzsche; and is the translator of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, all published by SUNY Press.

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