| Time in American and East Asian Thinking: A Comparative Study of Temporality in American Transcendentalism, Pragmatism and (Zen) Buddhist Thought Contributor(s): Capelle, Birgit (Author) |
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ISBN: 3825357988 ISBN-13: 9783825357986 Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter OUR PRICE: $63.65 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Eastern - Religion | Buddhism - General (see Also Philosophy - Buddhist) |
| Series: American Studies - A Monograph |
| Physical Information: 384 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Buddhist |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study explores the topic of time from a comparative, 'trans-cultural' perspective. It points out structural parallels (isomorphisms) between interpretations of reality that are distinctive of the two cultural realms North America and East Asia, emphasizing their common post- or non-metaphysical visions. Transcendentalist, Pragmatist, and (Zen) Buddhist ways of conceptualizing temporality differ radically from the established Western, primarily Christian-shaped 'abstract' concept of linear, teleological time. They are based on the intuitive insight that Being 'is' time or, "impermanence" (Skt.: 'anitya'), and hence do not postulate the long-established Western, i.e. predominantly European, dualism of Being 'and' time. Like the prominent philosopher and sinologist Francois Jullien, the present study thus raises and deals with the fundamental question whether it is indispensable to think 'time' abstractly conceptually in "terms" of a separate category, dimension, or homogeneous flow. |
