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Author | : Angela Moorjani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2021-07-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009021850 |
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Beckett and Buddhism undertakes a twenty-first-century reassessment of the Buddhist resonances in Samuel Beckett's writing. These reverberations, as Angela Moorjani demonstrates, originated in his early reading of Schopenhauer. Drawing on letters and archives along with recent studies of Buddhist thought and Schopenhauer's knowledge of it, the book charts the Buddhist concepts circling through Beckett's visions of the 'human predicament' in a blend of tears and laughter. Moorjani offers an in-depth elucidation of texts that are shown to intersect with the negative and paradoxical path of the Buddha, which she sets in dialogue with Western thinking. She brings further perspectives from cognitive philosophy and science to bear on creative emptiness, the illusory 'I', and Beckett's probing of the writing process. Readers will benefit from this far-reaching study of one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century who explored uncharted topologies in his fiction, theatre, and poetry.
Author | : Paul Foster |
Publisher | : Wisdom Publications (MA) |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Applies an understanding of Zen Buddhism to the 'absurdity' of Beckett, which is seen as an expression of deepest spiritual anguish.
Author | : Lawrence Shainberg |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2019-07-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0834842254 |
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From Pushcart Prize-winning author Lawrence Shainberg, a funny and powerful memoir about literary friendships, writing, and Zen practice. “Inexplicably good karma”—to this, author Lawrence Shainberg attributes a life filled with relationships with legendary writers and renowned Buddhist teachers. In Four Men Shaking he weaves together the narratives of three of those relationships: his literary friendships with Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer, and his teacher-student relationship with the Japanese Zen master Kyudo Nakagawa Roshi. In Shainberg’s lifelong pursuit of both writing and Zen practice, each of these men represents an important aspect of his experience. The audacious, combative Mailer becomes a symbol in Shainberg’s mind for the Buddhist concept of “form,” while the elusive and self-deprecating Beckett seems to embody an awareness of “emptiness.” Through it all is Nakagawa, the earthy, direct Zen master challenging Shainberg to let go of his endless rumination and accept reality as it is. Browse Inside Four Men Shaking Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My Perfect Zen Teacher By Lawrence Shainberg $16.95 - Paperback OUT OF STOCK: Available for back-order. Qty: Shambhala Publications 07/16/2019 Pages: 144 Size: 5 x 7 ISBN: 9781611807295 0 Related • Zen Confidential By Shozan Jack Haubner $14.95 Paperback • Nothing Holy about It By Tim Burkett $17.95 Paperback • Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home By Natalie Goldberg $16.95 Paperback • Single White Monk By Shozan Jack Haubner $14.95 Paperback Related Topics Buddhist Biography/Memoir Writing Details “Inexplicably good karma”—to this, author Lawrence Shainberg attributes a life filled with relationships with legendary writers and renowned Buddhist teachers. In Four Men Shaking he weaves together the narratives of three of those relationships: his literary friendships with Samuel Beckett and Norman Mailer, and his teacher-student relationship with the Japanese Zen master Kyudo Nakagawa Roshi. In Shainberg’s lifelong pursuit of both writing and Zen practice, each of these men represents an important aspect of his experience. The audacious, combative Mailer becomes a symbol in Shainberg’s mind for the Buddhist concept of “form,” while the elusive and self-deprecating Beckett seems to embody an awareness of “emptiness.” Through it all is Nakagawa, the earthy, direct Zen master challenging Shainberg to let go of his endless rumination and accept reality as it is.
Author | : Chutima Maneewattana |
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Release | : 2014 |
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Author | : Chutima Maneewattana |
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Release | : 2014 |
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Download Reading Samuel Beckett's in the Light of Buddhism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Wimbush Andy |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2020-06-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3838213696 |
Download Still: Samuel Beckett's Quietism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the 1930s, a young Samuel Beckett confessed to a friend that he had been living his life according to an ‘abject self-referring quietism’. Andy Wimbush argues that ‘quietism’—a philosophical and religious attitude of renunciation and will-lessness—is a key to understanding Beckett’s artistic vision and the development of his career as a fiction writer from his early novels Dream of Fair to Middling Women and Murphy to late short prose texts such as Stirrings Still and Company. Using Beckett’s published and archival material, Still: Samuel Beckett’s Quietism shows how Beckett distilled an understanding of quietism from the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, E.M. Cioran, Thomas à Kempis, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and André Gide, before turning it into an aesthetic that would liberate him from the powerful literary traditions of nineteenth-century realism and early twentieth-century high modernism. Quietism, argues Andy Wimbush, was for Beckett a lifelong preoccupation that shaped his perspectives on art, relationships, ethics, and even notions of salvation. But most of all it showed Beckett a way to renounce authorial power and write from a position of impotence, ignorance, and incoherence so as to produce a new kind of fiction that had, in Molloy’s words, the ‘tranquility of decomposition’.
Author | : Pavneet Kaur |
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Release | : 2018 |
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Download Exploring Emptiness Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Danvers |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9401207879 |
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Through an analysis of many different examples, Danvers articulates a new way of thinking about mysticism and scepticism, not as opposite poles of the philosophical spectrum, but as two fields of enquiry with overlapping aims and methods. Prompted by a deep sense of wonder at being alive, many mystics and sceptics, like the Buddha, practice disciplines of doubt in order to become free of attachment to fixed appearances, essences and viewpoints, and in doing so they find peace and equanimity. They develop ways of living with impermanence and the unexpected by letting go of adherence to dogmatic beliefs and by suspending judgement. In common with many artists and poets they act as agents of uncertainty, actively disturbing the routines and habits of day-to-day thought and behaviour in order to demonstrate how to maintain a sense of balance and spontaneity in the midst of life’s difficulties. Topics explored include: being and self as process; mysticism and language; scepticism and dogmatism; Buddhism, interdependence and emptiness; Daoism and impermanence; dialectics of doubt in art and poetry. Written in a lively and accessible style, accompanied by drawings and photographs by the author, this volume is aimed at scholars, artists, teachers, and anyone interested in philosophy, religion, art, poetry and ways of being.
Author | : Albert Shansky |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2015-09-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1514412071 |
Download Field-Being Interpretation of Buddhist Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Buddhism is a religion despite the negative attitude of some in the West, who espouse that since it has no god, it is atheistic and, therefore, cannot be a religion. A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices that unite into one single moral community. A. N. Whitehead fortified this definition by saying, Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Buddhism satisfies these definitions by guiding the individual in self-reliance and introspection rather than entreaty to an unseen god or spirit. It is hoped that the nine essays in this book depict situations where a set of symbolic forms and acts relate man to the ultimate condition of his existence. The essays in this book have been written between the years of 1998 and 2000 while Albert Shansky, the author, was executive vice president of the International Institute of Field-Being at Fairfield University.
Author | : John L. Kundert-Gibbs |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Chaotic behavior in systems in literature |
ISBN | : 9780838637623 |
Download No-thing is Left to Tell Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study uses Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory as binocular lenses to examine the existential difficulties in Samuel Beckett's plays in terms that circumvent traditional Western schools of thought. The book first outlines the salient points of Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory, examining the interplay of ideas between the two disciplines. The balance of the book uses Zen and Chaos theory to reveal new patterns and layers of meaning (or non meaning) in several of Beckett's most significant plays.