Transcendent

Melville House Publishing

TranscendentArt and Dhama in a Time of Collapse\nAuthor(s): Curtis White\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Penguin Random House Group, United States\nImprint: Melville House Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781612199948, 978-1612199948\nSynopsis\nIn TRANSCENDENT, celebrated cultural critic Curtis White, asks what Buddhism will look like in the future. Do we want a secular Buddhism that looks like corporations and neuroscience? Or do we want a Buddhism that still provides refuge from the debased world of money and things? Transcendence is not about magic realms where spirits fly about; the world is, as Shunryu Suzuki put it, its own magic. We only need to reclaim it and reclaim our humanity while we're at it. The problem White suggests is a culture that recognizes only 'things', capitalist things and science things, and aggressively denies the idea that the world of things has a beyond. We're told by science ideologues like the New Atheists that we live in a secular age and that philosophy is dead,.