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Print Price: $55.00

Format:
Paperback
160 pp.
2 figures, 150 mm x 226 mm

ISBN-13:
9780788500817

Publication date:
December 1995

Imprint: OUP US


Working Emptiness

Toward a Third Reading of Emptiness in Buddhism and Postmodern Thought

Newman Robert Glass

Series : AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series, 1

Newman Robert Glass argues that there are three workings of emptiness capable of grounding thinking and behavior: presence, difference, and essence. The first two readings, exemplified by Heidegger and Mark C. Taylor respectively, present opposing views of the work of emptiness in thinking. The third, essence, presents a position on the work of emptiness in desire and affect. Glass begins by offering a close analysis of presence and difference. He then fashions his own understanding of essence, or emptiness. He goes on to use this third reading to construct a comprehensive Buddhist position based in desire and affect -- a Buddhism of essence.

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