Buddhism and Deconstruction: Towards a Comparative Semiotics

ISBN-13: 9781138862500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 242 str.

Dr. Youxuan Wang

Opis

This is a semiotic study of a corpus of texts that Kumarajiva (344-413 CE), Paramartha (499 569 CE) and Xuanzang (599 664 CE) transmitted from India to China, featuring a critical reading of the Dazhidu Lun (T1509, Maha-Prajnaparamita-upadeua-Uastra), San Wuxing Lun (T1617, Try-asvabhava-prakara.na), and Guangbai Lun (T1571, Catu.huataka-uastra-karika). Focusing its attention on the Mahayana Buddhist notion of samata, it identifies a Buddhist semiotics which anticipates Derrida's invocation of the notion of the Same in his deconstruction of binary oppositions."

Spis treści

Introduction: The pursuit of signs; Chapter 1 Three grades of understanding in the H?nay?na analytic system: A structural study of the list of seventy-five factors; Chapter 2 Undoing the H?nay?na Onto-epistemological categories: A semiotic approach to the list of eighteen points about emptiness; Chapter 3 Three ways of looking at the un-arisen: The Same in Kum?raj?va’s Madhyamaka system; Chapter 4 Dialectic of construction and de-construction in the Vijñ?nav?da system: The Same in Param?rtha’s Shèlùn system; Chapter 5 Deconstruction of time in Dharmap?la’s commentary on ?ryadeva’s Treatise in Four Hundred Verses: The Same in Xuánzàng’s F?xiàng system; Chapter 6 Three ways of looking at the un-arisen in French deconstruction: Derrida’s conception of the Same; Chapter 7 Afterword: Three semiotic models;

O autorze

Wang, Dr Youxuan; Youxuan, Wang