Self & Society: Essays on Pali Literature and Social Theory, 1988-2010

ISBN-13: 9786162150678 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 328 str.

Steven Collins

Opis

This selection of essays demonstrates that, in the study of Buddhism, a concern with detailed accuracy in philological and textual specifics can be combined with wider philosophical and sociological issues. The essays are divided into three parts: (1) Pali Literature, (2) The Theory and Practice of Not-Self, and (3) Buddhism and Society. The last part builds on but goes beyond the work of Dumont and Max Weber in considering ?world-renunciation? as a phenomenon of society and culture.