Wisdom As a Way of Life - Theravada Buddhism Reimagined

This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravada Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how to act.

List of contents

Preface, by Dan Arnold
Editor’s Introduction, by Justin Thomas McDaniel
Part One: Wisdom
Part Two: Practices of Self
Conclusion
Afterword: Reading Collins Today, and Tomorrow, by Charles Hallisey
Notes
Index

Summary

This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravada Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how to act.

Additional text

Scholars, friends, colleagues, and students will treasure this last instance of Collins' distinctive and humane sensibility.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Collins, Steven (Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Collins, Steven (Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities Collins, Steven/ Mcdaniel Collins
• Assisted by: Justin McDaniel (Editor), Justin (Associate Professor McDaniel (Editor), Dan Arnold (Foreword), Arnold Dan (Foreword), Charles Hallisey (Introduction), Hallisey Charles (Introduction)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780231197205
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19720-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; RELIGION / Buddhism / Rituals & Practice, PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, RELIGION / Buddhism / Theravada, Buddhism, Theravada Buddhism, Buddhism; Theravada; literart criticism