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| Just Awakening: Yogācāra Social Philosophy in Modern China | ||
| 作者 | Zu, Jessica X. (著) |
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| 出版日期 | 2025.03 |
| 頁次 | 288 |
| 出版者 | Columbia University Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://cup.columbia.edu/ |
| 出版地 | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Jessica X. Zu is assistant professor of religion and East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Southern California, Dornsife. |
| 摘要 | Just Awakening uncovers a forgotten philosophy of social democracy inspired by Yogācāra, an ancient, nondualistic Buddhist philosophy that claims everything in the perceptible cosmos is mere consciousness and consists of multiple karmically connected yet bounded lifeworlds. This Yogācāra social philosophy emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries among Chinese intellectuals who struggled against the violent Social Darwinist logic of the survival of the fittest. Its proponents were convinced that the root cause of crisis in both China and the West was epistemic—an unexamined faith in one common, objective world and a subject-object divide. This dualistic paradigm, in their view, had dire consequences, including moral egoism, competition for material wealth, and racial war. Yogācāra insights about plurality, interdependence, and intersubjectivity, however, had the capacity to awaken the world from these deadly dreams. Jessica X. Zu reconstructs this account of modern Yogācāra philosophy, arguing that it offers new vocabularies with which to reconceptualize equality and freedom. Yogācāra thinking, she shows, diffracts the illusions of individual identity, social categories, and material wealth into aggregated, recurring karmic processes. It then guides the reassembly of a complex society through nonhierarchical, noncoercive, and collaborative actions, sustained by new behavior patterns and modes of thought. Demonstrating why Chinese Buddhist social philosophy offers powerful resources for social justice and liberation today, Just Awakening invites readers to think with modern Yogācāra philosophers about other ways of building egalitarian futures. |
| 目次 | Preface Introduction: Changing Referents Part I: When Dharma Meets Darwin 1. Lü Cheng and the Birth of Yogācāra Social Philosophy 2. Karma, Evolutionism, and Buddhist Social Consciousness 3. Karma, Science, and a Just Society Part II. Liberation Buddhology 4. Buddhability as Humanity 5. Bodhisattva of Democracy 6. Scholarship for Salvation Not a Coda: Bending the Arc Together Notes Bibliography Index |
| ISBN | 9780231216043 (Paperback); 9780231216036 (Hardcover); 9780231561105 (E-Book) |
| 點閱次數 | 1 |
| 建檔日期 | 2025.02.18 |
| 更新日期 | 2025.02.24 |
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