Between mārga and démarche: a course in emptiness & différance
This thesis forwards a path-based hermeneutics as a middle path (Skt. madhyamā-pratipad) between Deconstruction and Mādhyamaka, in order to understand our existential relatedness without reference to Being. It does not attempt to do so by way of a comparative analysis, which I believe results inevit...
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| description | This thesis forwards a path-based hermeneutics as a middle path (Skt. madhyamā-pratipad) between Deconstruction and Mādhyamaka, in order to understand our existential relatedness without reference to Being. It does not attempt to do so by way of a comparative analysis, which I believe results inevitably in some form of reification of both in terms of their method. Rather, what I see as unique to both Deconstruction and Mādhyamaka is this very lack of method – hermeneutical or otherwise – hence underscoring the significance of this path (either as démarche or mārga) that demands our existential response. The method is the argument, and in working through the various linguistic, epistemological, and ontological assumptions we thus engage (as our response and responsibility at once) with our very conditions of possibility that make them impossible at the same time. |
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| spelling | nottingham-113212025-02-28T11:12:43Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11321/ Between mārga and démarche: a course in emptiness & différance Tan, K. Cohen This thesis forwards a path-based hermeneutics as a middle path (Skt. madhyamā-pratipad) between Deconstruction and Mādhyamaka, in order to understand our existential relatedness without reference to Being. It does not attempt to do so by way of a comparative analysis, which I believe results inevitably in some form of reification of both in terms of their method. Rather, what I see as unique to both Deconstruction and Mādhyamaka is this very lack of method – hermeneutical or otherwise – hence underscoring the significance of this path (either as démarche or mārga) that demands our existential response. The method is the argument, and in working through the various linguistic, epistemological, and ontological assumptions we thus engage (as our response and responsibility at once) with our very conditions of possibility that make them impossible at the same time. 2010 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en arr https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11321/1/Between_M%C4%81rga_and_D%C3%A9marche.pdf Tan, K. Cohen (2010) Between mārga and démarche: a course in emptiness & différance. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Buddhist philosophy Deconstruction Derrida Nagarjuna |
| spellingShingle | Buddhist philosophy Deconstruction Derrida Nagarjuna Tan, K. Cohen Between mārga and démarche: a course in emptiness & différance |
| title | Between mārga and démarche: a course in emptiness & différance |
| title_full | Between mārga and démarche: a course in emptiness & différance |
| title_fullStr | Between mārga and démarche: a course in emptiness & différance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Between mārga and démarche: a course in emptiness & différance |
| title_short | Between mārga and démarche: a course in emptiness & différance |
| title_sort | between mārga and démarche: a course in emptiness & différance |
| topic | Buddhist philosophy Deconstruction Derrida Nagarjuna |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11321/ |