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Nietzsche and Buddhism: A Study in Nihilism and Ironic Affinities

Nietzsche and Buddhism: A Study in Nihilism and Ironic Affinities

Hardcover

PhilosophyBuddhismGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 0198235569
ISBN13: 9780198235569
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 10 1997
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.92 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
Morrison offers an illuminating study of two linked traditions that have figured prominently in twentieth-century thought: Buddhism and the philosophy of Nietzsche. Nietzsche admired Buddhism, but saw it as a dangerously nihilistic religion; he forged his own affirmative philosophy in reaction against the nihilism that he feared would overwhelm Europe. Morrison shows that Nietzsche's influential view of Buddhism was mistaken, and that far from being nihilistic, it has notable and perhaps surprising affinities with Nietzsche's own project of the transvaluation of all values.

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