Abbreviations .................................................. ix
Acknowledgments ................................................ xi
Introduction .................................................... 1
PART I: CENTRIPETALITY: BUDDHISM AND METAPHYSICS ................ 9
1 The Silence of the Buddha ................................... 11
2 Hegel and Buddhism ......................................... 31
3 The Logic of Nothing and A-Metaphysics ...................... 47
PART TWO: CENTRIFUGALITY: LANGUAGE AND VIOLENCE ................ 65
4 Language and Thinking: Subjectivity and Zen Huatou
Meditation .................................................. 67
5 Thinking and Violence: Zen Hermeneutics .................... 101
6 Violence Institutionalized: The Social Dimension of Zen
Language ................................................... 121
PART THREE: THE TENSION: BUDDHISM AND THE POLITICS OF
POSTMODERNITY ................................................. 145
7 Modernity, Postmodernity, and the Question of
Legitimation ............................................... 147
8 Postmodern Small Discourses and the Huayan World
of Mutually Non-interfering Phenomena ...................... 161
9 Envisioning Zen Ethics through Huayan Phenomenology ........ 189
10 The Ethics of Tension: Toward Buddhist-Postmodern Ethics ... 205
Notes ......................................................... 223
Glossary of Chinese Characters ................................ 251
Bibliography .................................................. 255
Index ......................................................... 273
About the Author .............................................. 283
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