Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age: Charles Taylor and Zen Buddhism in the West - Paperback

by André Van Der Braak (Author)

In Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age André van der Braak uses Charles Taylor's A Secular Age to describe the encounter between Japanese Zen Buddhism and Western modernity. He proposes how Dōgen's thought offers resources for a reimagining of Zen.

Author Biography

André van der Braak, Ph.D. (2004), Radboud University Nijmegen, is Professor of Buddhist Philosophy in Dialogue with other World Views at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He published various monographs and articles including Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming without a Self (Lexington, 2011).