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Nietzsche and Zen: self-overcoming without a self

✍ Scribed by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm;Braak, Andre van der

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.;Lexington Books
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Series
Studies in comparative philosophy and religion
Edition
First paperback edition
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

In Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self, AndrΓ© 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 comparingNietzsche'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...

✦ Table of Contents

pt. I Setting the Stage --
Nietzsche's Buddhism --
Nietzsche and Zen --
Previous Research --
Nietzsche and Zen as Philosophies of Self-overcoming --
pt. II Practices of Self-overcoming --
Nietzsche and NaΜ„gaΜ„rjuna on the Self-overcoming of the Will to Truth --
Nietzsche and Linji on Truth as Embodiment --
Nietzsche and DoΜ„gen on the Self-cultivation of the Body --
The Self-overcoming of the Ego --
pt. III Enlightenment --
The Self-overcoming of Redemption and Enlightenment --
The Child --
Nishitani on Nietzsche: the Self-overcoming of the Will to Power --
pt. IV The Self-overcoming of Philosophy --
Exoteric and Esoteric --
Revaluation of All Values.

✦ Subjects

Zen Buddhism--Philosophy;Philosophy and religion;Self (Philosophy);Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900;Zen Buddhism -- Philosophy

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