Heisig, James W.,  1944- <br/><br/>
Nothingness and desire :  an East-West philosophical antiphony / 
James W. Heisig. 
 - 1 online resource (202 pages). 
 - Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture .
 - Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture. .
<br/><br/> "Jordan lectures 2011." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>The guiding fictions -- Desire and its objects -- Desire without a proper object -- Nothingness and being -- The nothingness of desire and the desire for nothingness -- Defining self through no-self -- Getting over one's self -- The mind of nothingness -- The self with its desires -- No-self with its desire -- No-self and self-transcendence -- God and death -- From God to nothingness -- God and life -- Displacing the personal God -- Towards an impersonal god -- The absolute of relatedness -- The god of nothingness -- The place of morality -- Convivial harmony -- Customs, habits, decisions -- Morality and religion -- The moral subject in love -- The experience of happiness -- Giving and receiving -- The body as property -- Detachment -- Orthoaesthesis -- Consumption -- Sufficiency -- An elusive horizon -- Rewriting the history of philosophy -- Philosophical antiphony -- Cultural disarmament -- Philosophy beyond the divide. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780824839567 (electronic bk.) 0824839560 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Philosophy, Comparative.<br/>Nothing (Philosophy)<br/>Desire (Philosophy)<br/>PHILOSOPHY / Eastern
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B799  / .H38 2013eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>181