Nietzsche and Other Buddhas

Jason M. Wirth is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. He is author of Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis; Commiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking; and Schelling's Practice of the Wild: Time, Art, Imagination. He is editor of (with Bret W. Davis and Brian Schroeder) Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School.

"By probing the relationship between the extra-philosophical grounds of philosophy and philosophy itself, Jason M. Wirth puts forward a fundamental meditation on the origin and nature of philosophical activity. Rather than an exercise in comparative philosophy in the traditional sense, he reflects on what makes comparative philosophy possible and intelligible."—André van der Braak, author of Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self"The field of comparative or intercultural philosophy is growing steadily, and Jason M. Wirth's excellent work of scholarship is based on thorough research across several fields of philosophy and contains a host of original insights and good ideas."—Graham Parkes, author of Nietzsche and Asian Thought"Jason Wirth has written a book that is the product of his love for both East-Asian and Western philosophy, and as such a book that bridges differences. In that respect, then, Nietzsche and Other Buddhas is an important book for an age marked by intolerance and disregard for the "other". . . and where the love of thought, spirit, and body that is indeed philosophy has an important role to play."—Los Angeles Review of Books"The book is rich in subtle details and inquiries. Slim though it is, this is not a book that will be read quickly and then put down as having been read. It is a demanding and yet inviting text. . . . Highly recommended."—Choice"Jason Wirth's Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy is a tour de force that both challenges and expands our understanding of the very practice of philosophy in general, and comparative philosophy in particular."—Joseph Markowski, Reading Religion

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy1. Thinking about Nietzsche and Zen2. Strange Saints (Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hakuin)3. Convalescence (Nietzsche, James, Hakuin)4. Nietzsche in the Pure Land (Nietzsche, Shinran, Tanabe)5. Planomenal Nourishment (Nietzsche, Deleuze, Dōgen)Concluding Thoughts: Pure Experience and Philosophy after Comparative PhilosophyBibliographyIndex