Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming Without a Self - Paperback

by Andr? Van Der Braak (Author)

In Nietzsche and Zen: Self-Overcoming without a Self, Andr? van der Braak juxtaposes Nietzsche with four influential representatives of the Buddhist Zen tradition: Nagarjuna, Linji, Dogen, and Nishitani. In doing so, he reveals Nietzschean philosophy as a philosophy of continuous self-overcoming, in which even the notion of "self" is overcome, and allows a greater understanding of Nietzsche through the lens of Zen and vice versa. This treatment will be useful to Nietzsche scholars, continental philosophers, and comparative philosophers.

Author Biography

André van der Braak is research associate at Radboud University, Nijmegen.