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In Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self, André van der Braak engages Nietzsche in a dialogue with four representatives of the Buddhist Zen tradition: Nagarjuna (c. 150-250), Linji (d. 860), Dogen (1200-1253), and Nishitani (1900-1990). In doing so, he reveals Nietzsche's thought as a philosophy of continuous self-overcoming, in which even the notion of "self" has been overcome. Van der Braak begins by analyzing Nietzsche's relationship to Buddhism and status as a transcultural thinker, recalling research on Nietzsche and Zen to date and setting out the basic argument of the study. He continues by examining the practices of self-overcoming in Nietzsche and Zen, comparing Nietzsche's radical skepticism with that of Nagarjuna and comparing Nietzsche's approach to truth to Linji's. Nietzsche's methods of self-overcoming are compared to Dogen's zazen, or sitting meditation practice, and Dogen's notion of forgetting the self. These comparisons and others build van der Braak's case for a criticism of Nietzsche informed by the ideas of Zen Buddhism and a criticism of Zen Buddhism seen through the Western lens of Nietzsche - coalescing into one world philosophy. This treatment, focusing on one of the most fruitful areas of research within contemporary comparative and intercultural philosophy, will be useful to Nietzsche scholars, continental philosophers, and comparative philosophers.
Contents
Preface
Introduction: a Summary of Arguments
Part 1. Setting the Stage
Chapter 1. Nietzsche's Buddhism
Chapter 2. Nietzsche and Zen - Previous Research
Chapter 3. Nietzsche and Zen as Philosophies of Self-overcoming
Part 2. Practices of Self-Overcoming
Chapter 4. Nietzsche and Nagarjuna on the Self-overcoming of the Will to Truth
Chapter 5. Nietzsche and Linji on Truth as Embodiment
Chapter 6. Nietzsche and Dogen on the Self-cultivation of the Body
Chapter 7. The Self-overcoming of the Ego
Part 3. Enlightenment
Chapter 8. The Self-overcoming of Redemption and Enlightenment
Chapter 9. The Child
Chapter 10. Nishitani on Nietzsche: the Self-overcoming of the Will to Power
Part 4. The Self-overcoming of Philosophy
Chapter 11. Exoteric and Esoteric
Chapter 12. Revaluation of All Values
Epilogue: Toward a Philosophy of the Future
