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Introduction: Conceptions of Nothingness in Asian Philosophy
PART I Emptiness in Brāhminical and Early Buddhist Traditions
1 The Unavoidable Void: Nonexistence, Absence, and Emptiness
2 Semantics of Nothingness: Bhartrhari’s Philosophy of Negation
3 Madhyamaka, Nihilism, and the Emptiness of Emptiness
4 In Search of the Semantics of Emptiness
5 Madhyamaka Emptiness and Buddhist Ethics
6 Emptiness and Violence: An Unexpected Encounter of Nāgārjuna with Derrida and Levinas
7 Speaking of the Ineffable …
8 Emptiness as Subject-Object Unity: Sengzhao on the Way Things Truly Are
9 On Nothing in Particular: Delimiting Not-Being for Knowing’s Sake
10 The Cognition of Nonexistent Objects: Five Yogācāra Arguments
PART II Nothingness in Early and Modern East Asian Traditions
11 The Notion of Wu or Nonbeing as the Root of the Universe and a Guide for Life
12 The Relation of Nothing and Something: Two Classical Chinese Readings of Daodejing 11
13 Was There Something in Nothingness? The Debate on the Primordial State between Daoism and Neo-Confucianism
14 Heart-Fasting, Forgetting, and Using the Heart Like a Mirror: Applied Emptiness in the Zhuangzi
15 Embodying Nothingness and the Ideal of the Affectless Sage in Daoist Philosophy
16 Nothingness in Korean Buddhism: The Struggle against Nihilism
17 Zen, Philosophy, and Emptiness: Dōgen and the Deconstruction of Concepts
18 Anontology and the Issue of Being and Nothing in Kitarō Nishida
19 Tanabe’s Dialectic of Species as Absolute Nothingness
20 Nishitani on Emptiness and Nothingness
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