1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910468023103321

Autore

Chouraqui Frank

Titolo

Ambiguity and the absolute : Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty on the question of truth / / Frank Chouraqui

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-8232-5414-3

0-8232-6111-5

0-8232-5413-5

0-8232-5412-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 304 pages)

Collana

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Perspectives in continental philosophy

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Absolute, The

Ambiguity

Truth

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Nietzsche on Self-Differentiation and Genealogy -- 2 The Incorporation of Truth and the Symbiosis of Truth and Life -- 3 The Self-Becoming of the World and the Incompleteness of Being -- Transition: Vicious Circles, Virtuous Circles, and Meeting Merleau-Ponty in the Middle -- 4 The Origin of Truth -- 5 Existential Reduction and the Object of Truth -- 6 Merleau-Ponty’s “Soft” Ontology of Truth as Falsification -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Friedrich Nietzsche and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Chouraqui argues, are linked by how they conceive the question of truth. Although both thinkers criticize the traditional concept of truth as objectivity, they both find that rejecting it does not solve the problem. What is it in our natural existence that gave rise to the notion of truth?The answer to that question is threefold. First, Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty both propose a genealogy of “truth” in which to exist means to make implicit truth claims. Second, both seek to recover the preobjective ground



from which truth as an erroneous concept arose. Finally, this attempt at recovery leads both thinkers to ontological considerations regarding how we must conceive of a being whose structure allows for the existence of the belief in truth. In conclusion, Chouraqui suggests that both thinkers’ investigations of the question of truth lead them to conceive of being as the process of self-falsification by which indeterminate being presents itself as determinate.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792242203321

Autore

Heine Steven <1950->

Titolo

Opening a mountain : kōans of the Zen Masters / / Steven Heine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2002

ISBN

0-19-517434-8

1-280-47343-6

0-19-803104-1

0-19-530237-0

9786610473434

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 200 pages) : map

Disciplina

294.3/927

Soggetti

Zen Buddhism

Koan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. xi) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Sources; Preface; INTRODUCTION: What Are Koans?; Sticks and Stones, but It's No-Names That Hurt; On the Conventional Understanding of Koans; Marvelous and Ritual Elements in Koans; The Case of Chü-chih Cutting Off a Finger; The Mythological Background of Koan Literature; Zen Masters and Their Mountains; Koan Themes and Sources; Themes; Sources; On Reading Koans; 1. SURVEYING MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPES; Northern and Ox Head Schools; I. Yüan-kuei Subdues the Mountain God; 2. Tao-shu and the Trickster; 3. Master Chiang-mo, Subjugator of Demons; 4. Does Niu-t'ou Need the Flowers?

Southern School 5. Pai-chang Meditates On Ta-hsiung Peak; 6. Kuei-



shan Kicks Over the Water Pitcher; 7. Te-shan Carrying His Bundle; 8. Nan-ch'üan Sweeping On a Mountain; 9. Hsüan-sha's ""One Luminous Pearl""; Tung-shan's Mountain; 10. Tung-shan's ""Two Clay Oxen Enter the Sea""; 11. Yün-yen's ""Non-Sentient Beings Can Hear It""; 12. Yün-chü Wandering the Mountains; Mount Wu-t'ai; 13. ""Iron Grindstone"" Liu Goes to Mount Wu-t'ai; 14. Manjusri's ""Three by Three""; 15. Pi-mo's ""You Shall Die from My Pitchfork""; 2. CONTESTING WITH IRREGULAR RIVALS; Hermits, Wizards, and Other Masters

16. P'u-hua Kicks Over the Dining Table 17. The Tripitaka Monk Claims to Read Others' Minds; 18. A Hermit's ""The Mountain Torrent Runs Deep, So the Ladle Is Long""; 19. Chao-chou Checks Out Two Hermits; 20. Hsüeh-feng's ""What Is This?""; 21. Jui-yen Calls Out to Himself, ""Master""; 22. Ti-tsang Planting the Fields; Dangerous Women: Zen ""Grannies"" and Nuns; 23. Chao-chou Checks Out an Old Woman; 24. Te-shan and the Woman Selling Rice Cakes; 25. Mo-shan Opens Her Mouth; 26. Chao-chou Recites the Sutras; 3. ENCOUNTERING SUPERNATURAL FORCES; Trance, Visions, and Dreams

27. A Woman Comes Out of Absorption 28. Huang-po's ""Gobblers of Dregs""; 29. Sermon from the Third Seat; 30. Kuei-shan Turns His Face to the Wall; Spirits, Gods, and Bodhisattvas; 31. P'u-chi Subdues the Hearth God; 32. Nan-ch'üan Is Greeted by the Earth-Deity; 33. The Tea Ceremony at Chao-ch'ing; 34. Hu-kuo's Three Embarrassments; 35. Yün-chü and the Spirits; 36. The World Honored One Ascends the High Seat; Magical Animals; 37. A Snake Appears in the Relic Box; 38. Pai-chang and the Wild Fox; 39. Ta-kuang Does a Dance; 40. Hsüeh-feng and the Turtle-Nosed Snake

4. WIELDING SYMBOLS OF AUTHORITY AND TRANSMISSION Symbols of Authority; 41. Chih-men's ""I Have This Power""; 42. Yün-men's Staff Changes into a Dragon; 43. Kan-feng's Single Route; 44. The Hermit of Lotus Flower Peak Holds Up His Staff; 45. Ch'ing-yüan Raises His Fly-Whisk; Transmission Symbols; 46. Hui-neng's Immovable Robe; 47. Tung-shan Makes Offerings Before the Image; 48. Prime Minister P'ei-hsiu Replies, ""Yes""; 49. Yang-shan's ""Just About Enough""; 5. CONFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES Giving Life and Controlling Death; Repentance and Self-Mutilation; 50. Chih-yen Converts a Hunter; 51. Chü-chih's One Finger Zen

Sommario/riassunto

The koans in this text tell of charismatic early Zen masters who sought to demonstrate their spiritual authority by establishing new temples - a process known in the tradition as Opening a Mountain.