{"product_id":"critique-of-western-buddhism","title":"Critique of Western Buddhism","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat are we to make of Western Buddhism? This open access book argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary wellness industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought. Glenn Wallis shows that with concepts such as vanishing, nihility, extinction, contingency, and no-self, Buddhism, like all potent systems of thought, articulates a notion of the “real.” Raw, unflinching acceptance of this real is held by Buddhism to be at the very core of human “awakening.” Yet these preeminent human truths are universally shored up against in contemporary Buddhist practice, contravening the very heart of Buddhism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author’s critique of Western Buddhism is threefold. It is immanent, in emerging out of Buddhist thought but taking it beyond what it itself publicly concedes; negative, in employing the “democratizing” deconstructive methods of François Laruelle’s non-philosophy; and re-descriptive, in applying Laruelle’s concept of philofiction. Through applying resources of Continental philosophy to Western Buddhism, \u003ci\u003eA Critique of Western Buddhism\u003c\/i\u003e suggests a possible practice for our time, an \"anthropotechnic\", or religion transposed from its seductive, but misguiding, idealist haven.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eKnowledge Unlatched\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223678603608,"sku":"9781474283557","price":132.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781474283557_a22e132b-c09b-482b-b138-f0f65ff599fe.jpg?v=1743762632","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/critique-of-western-buddhism","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}