“I have contemplated and endured NOTHING for so long that it did not seem right to break my practice or offer other readers something like insight, possibly a moment of sense-making and affirmation. But I break out of my trance to assert the emphatic necessity of this book, so erudite without loading us down, relentless in its ability to resignify. Sassy, brilliant, a genuine engagement with and of thought, this work tunes us to a thrilling, endorphinating way of thinking: my drug of choice.”—Avital Ronell, New York University
“The reader will delight in two important aspects of Nothing: a multitude of contemporary Buddhist responses to the great political and social changes that have affected Asian countries—imperialism, colonialism, communism, corporate capitalism—and rigorous elaboration of Lacanian psychoanalysis with Buddhist psychology. This book is exceptional.”—Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University
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ReplyDeleteBeing called "sassy" by Avital Ronell is an approbation to be cherished. Put that one away in a scrap book. I've got a copy of "Nothing" on order. It's so hard to come by the original.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to read the book.
ReplyDeleteI will view this as a split decision as one endorsement is pure gold, while the other is perhaps a bit less so. Extremely intriguing, saving Buddhism from fascism and the world from "isms" would turn my head around more than Linda Blair's Raven in The Exorcist. I ask: Why break 'out' a trance metaphorically speaking, perhaps we (should be, as it is) are breaking 'in' to a trance with this glorious new bit of scholarship? I love books, and, having loved them must renounce them. Please publish in alternate formats more suited towards experiencing the transcendental in a teardrop.
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