Un-asking the question - introducing a critical Buddhist analytic.

Autor/inn/en	Park, Yoosun; Chatterjee, Alicia
Titel	Un-asking the question - introducing a critical Buddhist analytic.
Quelle	In: Social work & society, 21 (2023) 1, S. 1-15 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkungen; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1613-8953
URN	urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-sws-2940
Schlagwörter	Reflexion (Phil); Buddhismus; Religion; Studium; Wissenschaft; Soziale Arbeit; Diskurs; Kritik; Praxis; Theorie; USA
Abstract	In response to a call for a social work that reimagines the contours and content of the "social" (Wilson & Lynch, 2021, p. 1), we present two concepts central to Buddhism: sunyata (translated as "emptiness") and anatman ("no-self"), the anti-essentialist concept of sunyata as applied to the subject. The negation of all dualisms-the refutation of the anthropocentric, humanist world view, central concerns of the "new" posthumanisms-are basic premises of Buddhism. Our intent is to point to: 1) the untapped conceptual/theoretical riches of Buddhism, and; 2) the example of the Mindfulness industry, which cautions us that while social work is willing to extract elements of historically marginalized onto-epistemologies to be incorporated into the existing knowledge base, that base is not intended to be decentered. We introduce Buddhism, not as a truer alternative, but as a radical heuristic for un-settling the onto-epistemologies of rationality, the human subject, and social work futurities.
Erfasst von	Deutsches Zentralinstitut für soziale Fragen, Berlin
Update	2024/1