Daniel Herman

Zen and the White Whale

A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dick

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Zen and the White Whale: A Buddhist Rendering of Moby-Dickexamines how Herman Melville's Moby-Dick may have been influenced by contemporaneous sources of information about Buddhist thought and considers the book from a Zen Buddhist perspective, as it is expressed in both ancient and modern teachings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lehigh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781611461664
• ISBN-10: 1611461669
• Artikelnr.: 43021295

Autorenporträt

By Daniel Herman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Melville's Encounters with Buddhism 1.
The Prologue to Buddhist Studies 2. A Universal Absorber 3. Bayle's
Dictionary 4. Possibilities and Probabilities 5. Mardi and Other Mysteries
Part 2: Ishmael's Way-Seeking Mind 1. Groundlessness 2. Narcissus and
Dongshan 3. Searching for Ishmael 4. Whaling Life, Monastic Life 5.
Ishmael's Meditation 6. Impermanence and Interdependence 7. Philosophy,
Koans, and Silence Part 3: Moby Dick's Inscrutable Selflessness 1.
Sarcastic Science 2. The First Principle of All Things 3. Whiteness 4. The
Measurements of the Whale Skeleton 5. Ox-Herding Part 4: Captain Ahab's
Universe 1. A Factionalized Consciousness 2. Savagery Beyond Savagery 3.
Faith and the Three Mates 4. The Doubloon 5. Pip, Who Jumped from a
Whale-Boat 6. Ahab's Awakening 7. Pacific Conclusion Bibliography