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Double Exposure: Cutting Across Buddhist and Western Discourses (Cultural Memory in the Present)
by Bernard Faure
Binding: Paperback, 1 edition, 216 pages
Publisher: Stanford University Press
List Price: USD $23.95
Weight: 68
Dimension: H: 0.75 x L: 10.8 x W: 0.49 inches
ISBN 10: 0804743487
ISBN 13: 9780804743488
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This book explores the possible relations between Western types of rationality and Buddhism. It also examines some clich s about Buddhism and questions the old antinomies of Western culture ( faith and reason, or idealism and materialism ). The use of the Buddhist notion of the Two Truths as a hermeneutic device leads to a double or multiple exposure that will call into question our mental habits and force us to ask questions differently, to think in a new key. Double Exposure is somewhat of an oddity. Written by a specialist for nonspecialists, it is not a book of vulgarization. Although it aims at a better integration of Western and Buddhist thought, it is not an exercise in comparative philosophy or religion. It is neither a contribution to Buddhist scholarship in the narrow sense, nor a contribution to some vague Western spirituality. Cutting across traditional disciplines and blurring established genres, it provides a leisurely but deeply insightful stroll through philosophical and literary texts, dreams, poetry, and paradoxes.


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