Deleuze and Buddhism

Deleuze and Buddhism

Tony See Joff Bradley Editors Deleuze and Buddhism

Editors Tony See Singapore, Singapore Joff Bradley Chiba City, Japan ISBN 978-1-137-56705-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56706-2 ISBN 978-1-137-56706-2 (ebook) Library of Congress Control Number: 2016954254 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Th e author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Th e use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Th e publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover illustration: Anthony Pleva / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper Th is Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature Th e registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. Th e registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom

Contents 1 Introduction 1 Tony See 2 Deleuze and the Lotus Sūtra : Toward an Ethics of Immanence 11 Tony See 3 Deleuze, Spinoza and the Question of Reincarnation in the Mahāyāna Tradition 33 Simon Duffy 4 Kenji Miyazawa and Takaaki Yoshimoto: Schizophrenic Nature in Japanese Thought 51 Tatsuya Higaki 5 Ango the Schizo: Deleuze, Daraku, Downgoing 69 Joff Bradley v

vi Contents 6 On Not Mistaking Deleuze (With the Help of Some Buddhists) 99 Ian Cook 7 Deleuze and Guattari and Buddhism: Toward Spiritual Anarchism through Reading Toshihiko Izutsu 123 Toshiya Ueno Index 159

Notes on the Contributors Joff Bradley teaches in the faculty of foreign languages at Teikyo University, Tokyo. Although born and bred in northern England, he is a resident of Japan and applies his long-standing interest in schizoanalysis, European philosophy and critical thought to the social and political problems affecting his students. He has published articles in Asia, Australia, Europe, the UK, North America and the Middle East. His book with David R. Cole entitled A Pedagogy of Cinema will be published in 2016. Ian Cook teaches political philosophy and Australian politics at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia. He has published a series of articles on Deleuze and Guattari, and on Education Policy with Greg Thompson in Deleuze Studies (2015). He has authored and edited three textbooks on Australian politics: Contemporary Politics in Australia (2012), Government and Democracy in Australia (2009) and Keywords in Australian Politics (2006); articles on new technologies using Deleuzian theory (specifically MORPGs (multi- user online role-playing games), webporn and first-person shooters); and a traditional political theory book on Australian Liberalism, Liberalism in Australia ( 1999). He has also published his PhD thesis on J. S. Mill entitled Reading Mill: Studies in Political Theory (1998). Simon Duffy is a Senior Lecturer at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. His research interests include early modern philosophy, modern and contemporary European philosophy, the history and philosophy of science, ethics and Buddhist philosophy. He is the author of Deleuze and the History of Mathematics: in Defense of the New (2013), and The Logic of Expression: Quality, Quantity and Intensity in Spinoza, vii

viii Notes on the Contributors Hegel and Deleuze (2006). He is editor of Virtual Mathematics: the Logic of Difference (2006), and co-editor with Sean Bowden of Badiou and Philosophy (2012). He is the translator of Albert Lautman s Mathematics: Ideas and the Physical Real (2011). He has published in the journals International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory, and the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. He has also translated a number of Gilles Deleuze s seminars on Spinoza. Tatsuya Higaki is Professor in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Osaka, Japan. His specialty is French modern philosophy and Japanese philosophy. His Japanese books include Deleuze (2002), The Philosophy of Betting and Contingency (2008), Eternity and Instant: the Time Theory of Gilles Deleuze (2010) and Vita Technica: the Philosophy of Life and Technology (2011). Tony See is a Lecturer in the National University of Singapore (NUS) in Singapore. His research interest is on comparative philosophy. He has authored Community without Identity: the Ontology and Politics of Heidegger (2009), and his current research interest is on the intersections between Deleuze s philosophy and Buddhist philosophy. He has published a number of articles on Deleuze in international journals such as Tamkang Review (2014) and Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies (2015). Toshiya Ueno is Professor in the Department of Transcultural Studies in Wako University, Tokyo. His research field is critical theory, media theory and social thought. He has published numerous books in Japanese and essays in English. His most recent project is on Guattari and ecosophy. Underground techno party is also his field as both DJ and TJ (text jockey).