Carl Olson is Professor of Religious Studies at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. His previous books include The Indian Renouncer and Postmodern Poison: A Cross-Cultural Encounter and The Theology and Philosophy of Eliade: A Search for the Centre.

"The book is fascinating! I was so excited by this work that I could hardly bear to put it down. Every page is replete with fresh insight. It is rare to discover a writer who is not only conversant, but also clearly expert in both the postmodern and Zen traditions. Olson's scholarship is impressive. His competent and detailed analyses elucidate both traditions. One can never approach either tradition in the same way again."The book approaches representational dualism with penetration and depth, and helpfully illuminates both the postmodern and the Zen traditions. The issues it deals with are central both to the Western tradition of postmodernism and to the East Asian tradition of Zen Buddhism. Olson's book could easily become a standard in the field of comparative philosophy." — Steven W. Laycock, author of Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Mind: Buddhist Reflections on Western Phenomenology

• Preface 1. Signing InEye to EyeA Work of ArtZen Buddhism and PostmodernismComparative Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Dialogue 2. Language, Disruption, and PlayWords and No WordsDisruptionLudic Encounters and DialoguesPerformative LanguageSilenceConcluding Remarks 3. Ways of ThinkingWithdrawalThe WayThe CallWaitingReleasementConcluding Remarks 4. Radical Skepticism and DoubtNecessity for Methodological DoubtGenealogy and DifferenceDeconstructionSchizoanalysisSemanalysisConcluding Remarks 5. The BodyBody and WorldBody and ConsciousnessBody and PerceptionTime and BodyBody, Limitation, and Boundary Symbol 6. The Self and OtherPresence and AbsenceDecenteredKenosis and ZazenAltarityConcluding Remarks 7. Time and DeathThe Nature of TimeBeing and TimeExperience of TimeDeath DivineConcluding Remarks 8. Nihilism and MetaphysicsAn Apology for NihilismReaction of Nishitani to NihilismEnd of PhilosophyDifférance, Difference, and Buddha-NatureConcluding Remarks 9. Signing OutThe Present SimulacrumPast Dialogical SummaryResults of Dialogue for Representational ThinkingZen Through the Prism of Postmodern PhilosophyThe End of a Conclusion NotesBibliographyIndex

Carl Olson is Professor of Religious Studies at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. His previous books include The Indian Renouncer and Postmodern Poison: A Cross-Cultural Encounter and The Theology and Philosophy of Eliade: A Search for the Centre.

"The book is fascinating! I was so excited by this work that I could hardly bear to put it down. Every page is replete with fresh insight. It is rare to discover a writer who is not only conversant, but also clearly expert in both the postmodern and Zen traditions. Olson's scholarship is impressive. His competent and detailed analyses elucidate both traditions. One can never approach either tradition in the same way again."The book approaches representational dualism with penetration and depth, and helpfully illuminates both the postmodern and the Zen traditions. The issues it deals with are central both to the Western tradition of postmodernism and to the East Asian tradition of Zen Buddhism. Olson's book could easily become a standard in the field of comparative philosophy." — Steven W. Laycock, author of Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Mind: Buddhist Reflections on Western Phenomenology

• Preface 1. Signing InEye to EyeA Work of ArtZen Buddhism and PostmodernismComparative Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Dialogue 2. Language, Disruption, and PlayWords and No WordsDisruptionLudic Encounters and DialoguesPerformative LanguageSilenceConcluding Remarks 3. Ways of ThinkingWithdrawalThe WayThe CallWaitingReleasementConcluding Remarks 4. Radical Skepticism and DoubtNecessity for Methodological DoubtGenealogy and DifferenceDeconstructionSchizoanalysisSemanalysisConcluding Remarks 5. The BodyBody and WorldBody and ConsciousnessBody and PerceptionTime and BodyBody, Limitation, and Boundary Symbol 6. The Self and OtherPresence and AbsenceDecenteredKenosis and ZazenAltarityConcluding Remarks 7. Time and DeathThe Nature of TimeBeing and TimeExperience of TimeDeath DivineConcluding Remarks 8. Nihilism and MetaphysicsAn Apology for NihilismReaction of Nishitani to NihilismEnd of PhilosophyDifférance, Difference, and Buddha-NatureConcluding Remarks 9. Signing OutThe Present SimulacrumPast Dialogical SummaryResults of Dialogue for Representational ThinkingZen Through the Prism of Postmodern PhilosophyThe End of a Conclusion NotesBibliographyIndex

Carl Olson is Professor of Religious Studies at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. His previous books include The Indian Renouncer and Postmodern Poison: A Cross-Cultural Encounter and The Theology and Philosophy of Eliade: A Search for the Centre.

"The book is fascinating! I was so excited by this work that I could hardly bear to put it down. Every page is replete with fresh insight. It is rare to discover a writer who is not only conversant, but also clearly expert in both the postmodern and Zen traditions. Olson's scholarship is impressive. His competent and detailed analyses elucidate both traditions. One can never approach either tradition in the same way again."The book approaches representational dualism with penetration and depth, and helpfully illuminates both the postmodern and the Zen traditions. The issues it deals with are central both to the Western tradition of postmodernism and to the East Asian tradition of Zen Buddhism. Olson's book could easily become a standard in the field of comparative philosophy." — Steven W. Laycock, author of Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Mind: Buddhist Reflections on Western Phenomenology

• Preface 1. Signing InEye to EyeA Work of ArtZen Buddhism and PostmodernismComparative Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Dialogue 2. Language, Disruption, and PlayWords and No WordsDisruptionLudic Encounters and DialoguesPerformative LanguageSilenceConcluding Remarks 3. Ways of ThinkingWithdrawalThe WayThe CallWaitingReleasementConcluding Remarks 4. Radical Skepticism and DoubtNecessity for Methodological DoubtGenealogy and DifferenceDeconstructionSchizoanalysisSemanalysisConcluding Remarks 5. The BodyBody and WorldBody and ConsciousnessBody and PerceptionTime and BodyBody, Limitation, and Boundary Symbol 6. The Self and OtherPresence and AbsenceDecenteredKenosis and ZazenAltarityConcluding Remarks 7. Time and DeathThe Nature of TimeBeing and TimeExperience of TimeDeath DivineConcluding Remarks 8. Nihilism and MetaphysicsAn Apology for NihilismReaction of Nishitani to NihilismEnd of PhilosophyDifférance, Difference, and Buddha-NatureConcluding Remarks 9. Signing OutThe Present SimulacrumPast Dialogical SummaryResults of Dialogue for Representational ThinkingZen Through the Prism of Postmodern PhilosophyThe End of a Conclusion NotesBibliographyIndex