“Nascent Speculative Non-Buddhism,” the article presented in this post (pdf at bottom and on articles page), represents the fullest formulation of non-buddhism so far. The paper presents a heuristic which, if applied to your reading of Buddhist material and to your listening to Buddhist discussions, will, I am certain, prove revealing. As the title indicates, speculative non-buddhism is just beginning its life. A great deal of work needs to be done on both the theoretical and interpretive sides.
For those of you who will read no further than this post, I give you here the beginning, middle, and end.
Beginning:
“What is true cannot change; what changes is not true”— is this not the miserable dream in which too many have diffused their cleverness?—François Laruelle
Speculative non-buddhism is way of thinking and seeing that takes as its raw material Buddhism. It is a thought-experiment that poses the question: shorn of its transcendental representations, what might Buddhism offer us? Read the rest of this entry »
