On Deconstructing Life-Worlds: Buddhism, Christianity, Culture

by Robert R. Magliola

Overview

This text by an established specialist in French deconstruction, written after his many years in Asia and in the West, celebrates both Buddhist and Christian cultures and the negative but fertile differences between them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780788502965
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	10/28/1997

Editorial Reviews

"...a highly unusual book. To identify its genre would already be to misread it....[Magliola] deserves the full attention of those interested in doctrinal issues and in interreligious conversation."—Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University

"...a fascinating glimpse of a postmodern journey...a timely and concrete account of the religious resources of deconstruction, and of Derrida, Asian spirituality, and Trinitarian theology."—John D. Caputo, Villanova University

"Magliola's On Deconstructing Life-Worlds shows that he has not only studied recipes of Chinese culture but wholeheartedly tasted and assimilated them."—Mei-shu Hwang, Tamkang University

From the Publisher

[The volume illustrates] the diverse understanding of postmodernism in the field of religion, and how easily the term can be applied to a wide range of thinkers, concepts and practices.
— Journal of Buddhist Ethics

N. Robert Glass