pt. 1. Centripetality : Buddhism and metaphysics
1. The silence of the Buddha
3. The logic of nothing and A-metaphysics
pt. 2. Centrifugality : language and violence
4. Language and thinking : subjectivity and Zen Huatou meditation
5. Thinking and violence : Zen hermeneutics
6. Violence institutionalized : the social dimension of Zen language
pt. 3. The tension : Buddhism and the politics of postmodernity
7. Modernity, postmodernity, and the question of legitimation
8. Postmodern small discourses and the Huayan world of mutually non-interfering phenomena
9. Envisioning Zen ethics through Huayan phenomenology
10. The ethics of tension : toward Buddhist-postmodern ethics
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