Drawing on Zen as well as on Nietzsche's thought and its ramifications in and for western culture; this book is a fervent call for a re-visioning of philosophy as vocation. The author is critical of the status quo and committed to intellectual integrity; the result is a creative and adventurous enterprise which is no longer exclusively identified with academia or with the methodology of logic. Filtered through Nietzsche's hammer - by which he sounded out gods old and new - Buddhism in the West can avoid the pitfalls which emerged during its gestation period in the 20th century; such as: otherworldly spiritualism; conservatism; and denial of the body. The philosophy and the psychology of European Zen advocated by Manu Bazzano in Buddha is Dead: Nietzsche and the Dawn of European Zen is an unconditional affirmation of living and dying. It is an extraordinary fertile viewpoint that will be appreciated by all those who are interested in Eastern philosophy and religions; and who seek life affirming wisdom.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. 100 Year Old Thinking Still Works.By Michael ThompsonThis is a much under appreciated work. Roughly contemporary with the commissioning of HMS DREADNOUGHT (1907); Corbett examines von Clausewitz through the lens of the British Experience. Corbett's most important contribution is on the preferred form of War of the United States and Great Britain; War Limited by contingent. That is; where the object of the war is the complete defeat of the enemy; but the position of the combatant allows it to be limited.While I found Alfred Thayer Mahan's work to be; politely; aged and rather shoddy; this legalistic work explains how Naval strategy should be thought of.But then I'm not at the Naval War College.
