The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism

The Social Self in Zen and American PragmatismThe first book on East West comparative thought to critically analyze the Zen Buddhist model of self in modern Japanese philosophy from the standpoint of American pragmatism The thesis of this work is that in both modern Japanese philosophy and American pragmatism there has been a paradigm shift from a monological concept of self as an isolated "I" to a dialogical concept of the social self as an "I Thou relation," including a communication model of

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