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a study in nihilism and ironic affinities

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An edition of Nietzsche and Buddhism (1997)

Nietzsche and Buddhism

a study in nihilism and ironic affinities

Robert Morrison offers an illuminating comparative study of two linked and interacting traditions that have had great influence in twentieth-century thought: Buddhism and the philosophy of Nietzsche. Nietzsche saw a direct historical parallel between the cultural situation of his own time and of the India of the Buddha's age: the emergence of nihilism as a consequence of loss of traditional belief.

Nietzsche's fear, still resonant today, was that Europe was about to enter a nihilistic era in which people, no longer able to believe in the old religious and moral values, would feel themselves adrift in a meaningless cosmos where life seems to have no particular purpose or end. Though he admired Buddhism as a noble and humane response to this situation, Nietzsche came to think that it was wrong in not seeking to overcome nihilism, and constituted a threat to the future of Europe.

It was in reaction against nihilism that he forged his own affirmative philosophy, aiming at the transvaluation of all values. Nietzsche's view of Buddhism has been very influential in the West; Dr Morrison gives a careful critical examination of this view, argues that in fact Buddhism is far from being a nihilistic religion, and offers a counterbalancing Buddhist view of the Nietzschean enterprise.

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English
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250

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Cover of: Nietzsche and Buddhism
Nietzsche and Buddhism: A Study in Nihilism and Ironic Affinities
April 30, 1999, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: Nietzsche and Buddhism
Nietzsche and Buddhism: a Study in Nihilism and Ironic Affinities
1997, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Nietzsche and Buddhism
Nietzsche and Buddhism: a study in nihilism and ironic affinities
1997, Oxford University Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes translated quotes from German and Pali.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-242) and index.

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Oxford, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
193
Library of Congress
B3318.B83 M67 1997, B3318.B83M67 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 250 p. ;
Number of pages
250

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Open Library
OL1012687M
Internet Archive
nietzschebuddhis0000morr
ISBN 10
0198235569
LCCN
96053341
OCLC/WorldCat
36122080
Goodreads
3762117

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