Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Mind - Buddhist Reflections on Western Phenomenology

Rooted in the insights of Madhyamika dialectic and an articulated Zazen phenomenology, this study uncovers and examines the methodological presuppositions undergirding the work of Husserl, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty and calls into serious question certain of the most fundamental assumptions of the Western phenomenological tradition regarding the nature of mind. Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Mind presents, for the first time, a searching and distinctively Buddhist challenge to the Western phenomenologies-a challenge, that is, to grow beyond the settled alternative assumptions that the mind either is or is not mirror-like in its experience of phenomenal reality.

About the author

Steven W. Laycock is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toledo and the author of Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Mind: Buddhist Reflections on Western Phenomenology, coeditor (with James G. Hart) of Essays in Phenomenological Theology, also published by SUNY Press, and author of Foundations for a Phenomenological Theology.

Product details

• Authors: Steven W Laycock, Steven W. Laycock, Steven William Laycock
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.1994
• EAN: 9780791419984
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1998-4
• No. of pages: 354
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Suny Series, Buddhist Studies; Suny Series, Buddhist Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions