Critique of Western Buddhism, A: Ruins of the Buddhist Real - Glenn Wallis

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. What are we to make of Western Buddhism? Glenn Wallis argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary wellness industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought. This book shows that with concepts such as vanishing, nihility, extinction, contingency, and no-self, Buddhism, like all potent systems of thought, articulates a notion of the âœreal.❠Raw, unflinching acceptance of this real is held by Buddhism to be at the very core of human âœawakening.❠Yet these preeminent human truths are universally shored up against in contemporary Buddhist practice, contravening the very heart of Buddhism. The authorâs critique of Western Buddhism is threefold. It is immanent, in emerging out of Buddhist thought but taking it beyond what it itself publicly concedes; negative, in employing the âœdemocratizing❠deconstructive methods of François Laruelleâs non-philosophy; and re-descriptive, in applying Laruelleâs concept of philofiction. Through applying resources of Continental philosophy to Western Buddhism, A Critique of Western Buddhism suggests a possible practice for our time, an anthropotechnic, or religion transposed from its seductive, but misguiding, idealist haven.

TITLE: Critique of Western Buddhism, A: Ruins of the Buddhist Real

AUTHOR: Glenn Wallis

SKU: 9781350155213

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

DATE PUBLISHED: 20200319

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 232

DIMENSIONS: 234x156

WEIGHT: 340