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Informationen zum Autor Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Durham Klappentext Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani is one of the most important Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical texts. Jan Westerhoff offers a new translation, reflecting the best current philological research and all available editions, and adds his own philosophical commentary on the text. His nuanced, philosophically sophisticated commentary explains Nagarjuna's arguments in a way that is both grounded in historical and textual scholarship and connected explicitly to contemporary philosophical concerns. Zusammenfassung Nagarjuna's Vigrahavyavartani is an essential work of Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophical literature. Written in an accessible question-and-answer style, it contains Nagarjuna's replies to criticisms of his philosophy of the "Middle Way." The Vigrahavyavartani has been widely cited both in canonical literature and in recent scholarship; it has remained a central text in India, Tibet, China, and Japan, and has attracted the interest of greater and greater numbers of Western readers.In The Dispeller of Disputes, Jan Westerhoff offers a clear new translation of the Vigrahavyavartani, taking current philological research and all available editions into account, and adding his own insightful philosophical commentary on the text. Crucial manuscript material has been discovered since the earlier translations were written, and Westerhoff draws on this material to produce a study reflecting the most up-to-date research on this text. In his nuanced and incisive commentary, he explains Nagarjuna's arguments, grounds them in historical and textual scholarship, and explicitly connects them to contemporary philosophical concerns. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.: Introduction 2.: Text 3.: Commentary 4.: The status of the theory of emptiness 5.: The Madhyamaka dilemma 6.: The sound analogy 7.: The no-thesis view 8.: Epistemology 9.: Establishing the epistemic instruments 10.: The fire analogy 11.: The epistemic instruments as self-established 12.: Epistemic instruments and their objects 13.: The father-son analogy 14.: Summary 15.: Intrinsically good things 16.: Names without objects 17.: Extrinsic substances 18.: Negation and existence 19.: The mirage analogy 20.: Emptiness and reasons 21.: Negation and temporal relations 22.: Conclusion Bibliography ...
