Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism - a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy. This volume fills that gap, focusing on �nothing" - essential to Buddhism, of course, but also a key concept in critical theory from Hegel and Marx through deconstruction, queer theory, and contemporary speculative philosophy. Through an elaboration of emptiness in both critical and Buddhist traditions; an examination of the problem of praxis in Buddhism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis; and an explication of a "Buddhaphobia" that is rooted in modern anxieties about nothingness, Nothing opens up new spaces in which the radical cores of Buddhism and critical theory are renewed and revealed.
University of Chicago Press Trios series. Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism, Marcus Boon, Eric Cazdyn, Timothy Morton, University of Chicago Press, Paperback, 2015, 296 Pages, $30.00
Marcus Boon is professor of English at York University in Toronto.
Eric Cazdyn is the Distinguished Professor of Aesthetics and Politics at the University of Toronto.
Timothy Morton is the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
To Live In a Glass House is a Revolutionary Virtue Par Excellence: Marxism, Buddhism, and the Politics of Nonalignment - Marcus Boon
Enlightenment, Revolution, Cure: The Problem of Praxis and the Radical Nothingness of the Future - Eric Cazdyn
Buddhaphobia: Nothingness and the Fear of Things - Timothy Morton
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