Title: Nietzsche and Zen : self-overcoming without a self /
Authors: Braak, Andre van der, 1963-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,; Zen Buddhism Philosophy; Philosophy and religion.; Self (Philosophy)
Contents: Introduction : A summary of arguments -- pt. I. Setting the stage -- Nietzsche's Buddhism -- Nietzsche and Zen : previous research -- Nietzsche and Zen as philosophies of self-overcoming -- pt. II. Practices of self-overcoming -- Nietzsche and Nagarjuna on the self-overcoming of the will to truth -- Nietzsche and Linji on truth as embodiment -- Nietzsche and Dogen on the self-cultivation of the body -- The self-overcoming of the ego -- pt. III. Enlightenment -- The self-overcoming of redemption and enlightenment -- The child -- Nishitani on Nietzsche : the self-overcoming of the will to power -- pt. IV. The self-overcoming of philosophy -- Exoteric and esoteric -- Revaluation of all values -- Epilogue : Toward a philosophy of the future.