Finally, a goddamned academic! Fist pump to Robert Sharf.https://twitter.com/Sciamanoinglese/status/1145704889131003904 …
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4/7 You say "x-Buddhism" is anything & everything under the label "Buddhist." How can you presume to know the scope of your (totalizing) term? How do you know "non-B" doesn't fall under it? What justifies your standpoint?
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5/7 Sharf's point is that many of the intellectual moves you make under the heading of "non-Buddhism" have sophisticated antecedents in the Buddhist intellectual tradition
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The Laruellean non-x critique works for religions and culture generally. I don't know what you mean by "straight-forward."
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I mean why the special focus on Buddhism, particularly in a way that doesn't analyze it in terms of its dialectical encounters with other thoughts systems in other cultures throughout its history
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