Nietzsche and Buddhism A Study in Nihilism and Ironic Affinities [Paperback]

Morrison offers an illuminating study of two linked traditions that have figured prominently in twentieth-century thought: Buddhism and the philosophy of Nietzsche. Nietzsche admired Buddhism, but saw it as a dangerously nihilistic religion; he forged his own affirmative philosophy in reaction against the nihilism that he feared would overwhelm Europe. Morrison shows that Nietzsche's influential view of Buddhism was mistaken, and that far from being nihilistic, it has notable and perhaps surprising affinities with Nietzsche's own project of the transvaluation of all values.

PART ONE: NIETZSCHE's BUDDHISM
1. Introduction
2. Nietzsche on Buddhism
3. Is Buddhism a Form of Passive Nihilism?
4. How did Nietzsche Reach his Understanding of Buddhism?
PART TWO: IRONIC AFFINITIES
5. Introduction
6. Nietzsche's View of Man
7. The Buddha as a Profound Physiologist
8. Nietzsche's Little Things, the Body, and the Buddhist Khandhas
9. God's Shadow and the Buddhist No-Self Doctrine
10. The Will to Power and Thirst
11. Self-Overcoming and Mind-Development
12. Learning to See and Seeing and Knowing Things as they Really Are
13. Epilogue
Bibliography; Glossary; Index