Author: Ernest Becker
Publisher:
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Category : Zen (Buddhism)
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Analysis of Zen therapy and its relevance to the Western world presented by a psychoanalyst, emphasizing Zen's denial of a logical view of reality.
Author: Ernest Becker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zen (Buddhism)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Analysis of Zen therapy and its relevance to the Western world presented by a psychoanalyst, emphasizing Zen's denial of a logical view of reality.
Author: Ernest Becker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439118426
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606039604
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"With a new introduction by the author"--Jacket.
Author: Thomas P. Kasulis
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824845161
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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No detailed description available for "Zen Action/Zen Person".
Author: Robert Pirsig
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307764214
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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In this bestselling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life. In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.
Author: ERNEST. BECKER
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ISBN: 9781788164269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the 'why' of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie - man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. The book argues that human civilisation is a defence against the knowledge that we are mortal beings. Becker states that humans live in both the physical world and a symbolic world of meaning, which is where our 'immortality project' resides. We create in order to become immortal - to become part of something we believe will last forever. In this way we hope to give our lives meaning.In The Denial of Death, Becker sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after it was written.
Author: Ray Grigg
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462907458
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The premise of The Tao of Zen is that Zen is really Taoism in the disguise of Buddhism—an assumption being made by more and more Zen scholars. This is the first Zen book that links the long-noted philosophical similarities of Taoism and Zen. The author traces the evolution of Ch'an The The Tao of Zen is a fascinating book that will be read and discussed by anyone interested in both Taoism and Zen
Author: Glenn Wallis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474283578
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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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 “real.” Raw, unflinching acceptance of this real is held by Buddhism to be at the very core of human “awakening.” Yet these preeminent human truths are universally shored up against in contemporary Buddhist practice, contravening the very heart of Buddhism. The author's 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 “democratizing” deconstructive methods of François Laruelle's non-philosophy; and re-descriptive, in applying Laruelle's 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.
Author: Ernest Becker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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