A partial enlightenment : what modern literature and Buddhism can teach us about living well without perfection /
Alpert, Avram, 1984-
A partial enlightenment : what modern literature and Buddhism can teach us about living well without perfection / Avram Alpert. - 1 online resource (ix, 252 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Enlightenment -- 2. Reincarnation -- 3. Liberation -- 4. Authenticity -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
"At the end of the nineteenth century, confronted by colonialism, scientific rationality, and new versions of national identity, Buddhism reinvented itself for the modern era as a rational philosophy that became one of the most successful worldviews both in Asia and the West. Soon thereafter novelists began to incorporate their own ideas about modern Buddhism into their work, refashioning it anew not as a means for overcoming the fractures of modernity but as a realistic philosophy attuned to the tumult of a violent, global era. Avram Alpert shows how novelists from India, Japan, South Africa, the UK, Cuba, and the US realized that modern life did not allow for the Buddhist promise of enlightenment through the overcoming of personal identity, confronted as they were by the reincarnation of failed historical processes--racism, colonialism, patriarchy. Interwoven with his own narrative of Buddhist enchantment and disappointment, he argues that these authors evolved new visions of partial enlightenment, liberation from political suffering, and models of authenticity in an inauthentic world that remain meaningful for understanding our place in the chaos of global modernity"--
9780231553391 0231553390
22573/ctv1ggw0n5 JSTOR
2020035622
1900-1999
Buddhism--History--20th century.
Literature, Modern--20th century.
Enlightenment (Buddhism)
Reincarnation--Buddhism.
Salvation--Buddhism.
Buddhist modernism.
Literature, Modern
Bouddhisme--Histoire--20e siècle.
Littérature--20e siècle.
Illumination (Bouddhisme)
Réincarnation--Bouddhisme.
Salut--Bouddhisme.
Modernisme bouddhique.
RELIGION / Buddhism / General
Buddhism
Buddhist modernism
Enlightenment (Buddhism)
Literature, Modern
Reincarnation--Buddhism
Salvation--Buddhism
Electronic books.
History
BQ316 / .A47 2021
294.3/442
A partial enlightenment : what modern literature and Buddhism can teach us about living well without perfection / Avram Alpert. - 1 online resource (ix, 252 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Enlightenment -- 2. Reincarnation -- 3. Liberation -- 4. Authenticity -- Coda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
"At the end of the nineteenth century, confronted by colonialism, scientific rationality, and new versions of national identity, Buddhism reinvented itself for the modern era as a rational philosophy that became one of the most successful worldviews both in Asia and the West. Soon thereafter novelists began to incorporate their own ideas about modern Buddhism into their work, refashioning it anew not as a means for overcoming the fractures of modernity but as a realistic philosophy attuned to the tumult of a violent, global era. Avram Alpert shows how novelists from India, Japan, South Africa, the UK, Cuba, and the US realized that modern life did not allow for the Buddhist promise of enlightenment through the overcoming of personal identity, confronted as they were by the reincarnation of failed historical processes--racism, colonialism, patriarchy. Interwoven with his own narrative of Buddhist enchantment and disappointment, he argues that these authors evolved new visions of partial enlightenment, liberation from political suffering, and models of authenticity in an inauthentic world that remain meaningful for understanding our place in the chaos of global modernity"--
9780231553391 0231553390
22573/ctv1ggw0n5 JSTOR
2020035622
1900-1999
Buddhism--History--20th century.
Literature, Modern--20th century.
Enlightenment (Buddhism)
Reincarnation--Buddhism.
Salvation--Buddhism.
Buddhist modernism.
Literature, Modern
Bouddhisme--Histoire--20e siècle.
Littérature--20e siècle.
Illumination (Bouddhisme)
Réincarnation--Bouddhisme.
Salut--Bouddhisme.
Modernisme bouddhique.
RELIGION / Buddhism / General
Buddhism
Buddhist modernism
Enlightenment (Buddhism)
Literature, Modern
Reincarnation--Buddhism
Salvation--Buddhism
Electronic books.
History
BQ316 / .A47 2021
294.3/442