Avram Alpert

A Partial Enlightenment

What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us About Living Well Without Perfection

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Produktbeschreibung

Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it represents a rich resource not for attaining perfection but rather for finding meaning and purpose in a chaotic world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 139mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9780231200035
• ISBN-10: 023120003X
• Artikelnr.: 60478741

Autorenporträt

Avram Alpert teaches writing at Princeton University. He is the author of Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki (2019). He is also coeditor of Shifter magazine and has written cultural criticism for outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Brooklyn Rail, and Truthout.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Enlightenment
2. Reincarnation
3. Liberation
4. Authenticity
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index