The formless self

Gathering and interpreting material that is not readily available elsewhere, this book discusses the thought of the Japanese Buddhist philosophers Dogen, Hisamatsu, and Nishitani. Stambaugh develops ideas about the self culminating in the concept of the Formless Self as formulated by Hisamarsu in his book The Fullness of Nothingness and the essay "The Characteristics of Oriental Nothingness," and further explicated by Nishitani in his book Religion and Nothingness. These works show that Oriental nothingness has nothing to do with the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western concept of nihilism. Instead, it is a positive phenomenon, enabling things to be

Computer Science · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · 1200-1253 · 1889 · Buddhistische Philosophie · Dōgen · Dōgen (1200-1253) · Hisamatsu, Shinʼichi · Japanese · Japanese Philosophy · Keiji Nishitani (1900-) · Mind & Body · Personality · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion · Selbst · Self (Philosophy) · Shinʾichi Hisamatsu (1889-)