meontology v. ontology Unlisted

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Research into a philosophy of Absolute Nothingness, or other such ontologies of nothingness as implicit or explicit in Eastern religion and philosophy, albeit primarily Buddhism. Otherwise books that deeply involve the relationship between nothingness and being, whether from Western or Eastern traditions.

  1. Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus by ,

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    It may not be too much to say that all the work Western philosophers have done over the past two …

  2. Phenomenology of Spirit by 

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    Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spirit is Hegel's 1807 work that …

  3. Hegel and the Metaphysics of Absolute Negativity by 

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    Hegel's doctrines of absolute negativity and 'the Concept' are among his most original contributions to philosophy and they constitute the …

  4. Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness by  (SUNY Series in Philosophy)

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    Nishida Kitaro's reformulation of the major issues of Western philosophy from a Zen standpoint of "absolute nothingness" and "absolutely contradictory …

  5. Last Writings by 

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    Nishida Kitaro, Japan's premier modern philosopher, was born in 1870 and grew to intellectual maturity in the final decades of …

  6. Being and Nothingness by 

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    Often criticized and all-too-rarely understood, the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre encompasses the dilemmas and aspirations of the individual in contemporary …

  7. Being and Time by 

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    Being and Time (German: Sein und Zeit) is the 1927 magnum opus of German philosopher Martin Heidegger and a key …

  8. Nishida and Western philosophy by 

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    Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945) is the most important Japanese philosopher of the last century. His constant aim in philosophy was to …

  9. The Imaginary Institution of Society by 

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    Castoriadis offers a brilliant and far-reaching analysis of the unique character of the social-historical world and its relations to the …

  10. Otherwise Than Being by 

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    This is Levinas' last book. I can't describe it in a paragraph or two -- sorry! If you're looking to …

  11. Totality and Infinity by  (Philosophical Studies, #24)

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    Ever since the beginning of the modern phenomenological movement disciplined attention has been paid to various patterns of human experi- …

  12. Echoes of No Thing by 

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    Echoes of No Thing seeks to understand the space between thinking which Martin Heidegger and the 13th-century Zen patriarch Eihei …

  13. Nothingness in Asian Philosophy by ,

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    A variety of crucial and still most relevant ideas about nothingness or emptiness have gained profound philosophical prominence in the …

  14. Religion and Nothingness by 

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    Religion and Nothingness (Japanese: Shūkyō to wa Nanika; the original title translates literally as "What is Religion?") is a 1961 …

  15. Philosophy as Metanoetics by  (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture)

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    Tanabe Hajime, a founding member of Japan’s famed Kyoto School of Philosophy. Philosophy as Metanoetics is the 1986 translation of …

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