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Mind as
Mirror and the Mirroring of Mind, by Steven W. Laycock,
uncovers and examines the 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.
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Nothingness and Emptiness: A
Buddhist Engagement With the Ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre,
by Steven W. Laycock, is a sustained and distinctively Buddhist
challenge to the ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and
Nothingness. It resolves the incoherence implicit in the Sartrean
conception of nothingness by opening to a Buddhist vision of
emptiness.
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Rooted in the insights of Madhyamika
dialectic and an articulated meditative (zen) phenomenology,
Nothingness and Emptiness uncovers and examines the assumptions that
sustain Sartre's early phenomenological ontology and questions his
theoretical elaboration of consciousness as "nothingness." Laycock
demonstrates that, in addition to a "relative" nothingness (the
for-itself) defined against the positivity and plenitude of the
in-itself, Sartre's ontology requires, but also repudiates, a
conception of "absolute" nothingness (the Buddhist "emptiness"), and
is thus, as it stands, logically unstable, perhaps incoherent. The
author is not simply critical; he reveals the junctures at which
Sartrean ontology appeals for a Buddhist conception of emptiness and
offers the needed supplement.
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