Buddhism and Cultural Studies - A Profession of Faith

Contents

Acknowledgments

References

Chapter 1: Introduction

Refusing the Presumptive Secularism of Cultural Studies

The Ethics of Cultural Studies and, Perhaps, Faith?

An Enunciative Practice of a Spiritual-Scholarly Profession

A Profession of Faith on the Contested Ground of ‘Spirituality’

Notes

References

Chapter 2: Towards a Spiritually Engaged Cultural Studies

Who or What Is Embarrassed by Matters of Faith?

Governmentality, the Neoliberal Subject, and a Politics of Spirituality

The Spirituality of White Collar Zen

The Spirituality of Engaged Buddhism

The Question of Meditative Experience

Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 3: Methods, Traditions, Liminal Identities

A ‘Cultural Thing’

Buddhist Theology and Buddhist Critical-­Constructive Reflection

Autoethnographical Reflections of a Postcolonial ‘Western Buddhist’ Convert

Portraits and Legacies of Buddhist Modernism

The Insight (vipassan?) Meditation Movement

The Reciprocal Development of Buddhist Critical-­Constructive Reflection and Spiritually Engaged Cultural Studies

Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 4: Of Intellectual Hospitality, Buddhism and Deconstruction

Constructivist Critique and the Soteriological Claim of Unmediated Awareness

Dependent Co-arising and Différance

Reconsidering the Buddhist Critique of Deconstruction

Unconditional Unconditionality Unconditionally

Conclusion

References

Chapter 5: The ‘Religious Question’ in Foucault’s Genealogies of Experience

Part I: The Role of Experience in Foucault’s Oeuvre

‘Experience’ as Constitutive Historical Conditions

‘Experience’ as a Transformative Force

‘Limit-Experience’, ‘Transgression’ and ‘Spiritual Corporality’

Part II: The Turn to the Subject and Ethics

The ‘Nietzschean Legacy’ and the Quest for a Different Morality

Foucault’s ‘Iranian Experiment’

Is ‘Political Spirituality’ Religious or Secular?

Affirming the Messianicity of a Futural Politics

Conclusion

Note

References

Chapter 6: The Care of Self and Spiritually Engaged Cultural Studies

Problematisation and the Arts of Existence

Foucault’s Fourfold Analysis of Ethics and the Care of Self

The Double Articulation of the Self in Spiritually Engaged Cultural Studies

Conclusion

References

Chapter 7: A Foucauldian Analysis of Vipassana and a Buddhist Art of Living

Mindfulness of Bodily Sensation (Ethical Substance/the Material Fold)

The Decision to ‘Let Go’ (Mode of Subjection/the Fold of Relations Between Forces)

Dissolving the Habits of the Self (Ethical Work/the Fold of Truth)

Limit-Experience and the Body as Event (Telos/the Fold of the Outside)

Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 8: Buddhist Critical Thought and an Affective Micropolitics of (Un)Becoming

An Emergent Buddhist Critical/Social Theory

Affect and Biopower

The Intersensory Dynamics of Perception

The Anticipatory Triggers of Perception

The Influence of Discipline on Perceptual Processes

The Ethico-Political Fecundity of Dwelling in Moments of Duration

Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 9: A Profession of Faith

Is Buddhist Faith Blind?

The Undecidability of Faith and Faith in Undecidability

Debating the Im-possible: Radical Atheism Against God

Between an Immanent and Transcendent Horizon of Faith

Awaiting the ‘Perhaps’ with Derrida and Foucault

The Faith of Cultural Studies, Perhaps?

Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 10: Conclusion

The Micropolitics of the Neoliberal University

A Profession of Faith for the University Without Condition

Scholarly Affect and the Work of Friendship

Note

References

Bibliography

Index