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| #1735811 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1996-11-11 | 1996-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.84 x6.00l,1.12 | File type: PDF | 340 pages | ||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Worth the Struggle|By Seiso|I have struggled with this book for a number of years on and off, My struggle is two-fold. First, entering a highly articulate and thought-provoking deconstruction of Chan/Zen, which demands a slow, close and careful reading by someone such as myself with virtually no background in the Western philosophical traditions from which Faure draws from|From Scientific American|Thoughtful and thoughtprovoking. After reading Faure's contributions in The Rhetoric of Immediacy and Insights and Oversights, none of us working the fields of Zen, Buddhist studies, or historical and cultural studies can go about
For many people attracted to Eastern religions (particularly Zen Buddhism), Asia seems the source of all wisdom. As Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan/Zen from the standpoint of postmodern human sciences and literary criticism, he challenges this inversion of traditional "Orientalist" discourse: whether the Other is caricatured or idealized, ethnocentric premises marginalize important parts of Chan thought. Questioning the assumptions of "Easterners" as well, in...
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