Vol. 13 No. 3 of Asian Studies has been recently published. Please see here and below for the Table of Contents.
EDITOR’S FORWARD
Part II of the Double Issue on Nothingness
Jana S. ROŠKER
TRANSCULTURAL COMPARISONS
Buddhism, Nothingness, and Pessimism
From Schopenhauer to Nietzsche
Eric S. NELSON
Nothing for Children
Buddhist and Daoist Motifs in Michael Ende’s Phantastic Novels
Mario WENNING
Mu 無 as Structural Ground
Reinterpreting Saussure’s Structuralism Through Nishida Kitarō’s Logic of Basho
YANG Xiaobo
FREEDOM AND BEAUTY
The Beauty of Emptiness—The Foundational Root of Chinese Aesthetics
Téa SERNELJ
Is Freedom Nothing?
Luka PERUŠIĆ
ANALYTICAL APPROACHES
Nothingness of Dao in the Daodejing
A Mereological Interpretation
Rafal BANKA
Fictionally Fictional Object
The Alleged Objecthood of Nothingness
Wai Lok CHEUNG
Distinguishing Emptiness from Nothingness
A Comparative Analysis Using Zhang Dongsun’s Panstructural Epistemology
Jana S. ROŠKER
THE BUDDHIST LEGACIES IN INDIAN AND JAPANESE IDEAS ON NOTHINGNESS
“Nothingness”—A Comparative-Philosophical Interaction in the Field between East and West
Hisaki HASHI
Beyond Duality
Exploring “Nothingness” in the Advaita Vedānta and the Madhyamaka Traditions of Indian Buddhism
Pankaj VAISHNAV
THE WINNING ESSAY OF THE EACP YOUNG SCHOLARS AWARD COMPETITION
The (Non)Active Company of Forces
A Deleuzian Reading of the Affected Agential Self in “Boundless Wandering” in Zhuangzi
Shanni Sunny TSAI
OTHER TOPICS
From Grasping to Shaping Reality
Proper Naming in the Statecraft Chapters of the Chunqiu Fanlu
Ivana BULJAN
Žižek “With Chinese Characteristics”
Radical Theory and Its Selective Reception
Yue WU
ASIAN STUDIES IN SLOVENIA
Political-religious History of Ladakh
Sebastijan PEŠEC
BOOK REVIEWS
Jessica Rawson: Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
Manuel RIVERA ESPINOZA
Matthieu Felt: Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan
B.V.E. HYDE
