In-Between: Religious Quest and Philosophy of Life in Ueda and Buber

• Autores: Raquel Bouso García
• Localización: Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru: Language, Experience, and Zen / Ralf Müller (ed. lit.), Raquel Bouso García (ed. lit.), Adam Loughnane (ed. lit.), 2022, ISBN 978-3-030-92320-4, págs. 299-315
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • By means of a comparison with Martin Buber’s revitalization of Hasidism, this chapter aims, on the one hand, to shed light on Ueda’s approach to Zen Buddhism and how this shaped his philosophical trajectory, and on the other, to place Ueda’s philosophy in a broader context. It is suggested here that while Ueda is well aware that Zen and Philosophy are very different practices, like his predecessors in the Kyoto School Nishida and Nishitani, the two became complementary sides of the single activity of his experience of thinking. While Zen traditional narratives provide his philosophical reasoning with fruitful resources, they gain new life through Ueda’s interpretation. By so doing, his philosophy becomes rooted in the facticity of existence, insofar as he develops a sort of hermeneutics of life in which interpretation comes to be a way of self-understanding. At the same time, Ueda’s position in between philosophy and Zen enables him to offer a cultural critique helpful for rethinking the role of religion in our secular, or maybe post-secular, modern societies.