The Self without a Soul - Buddhism and Postmodernism - Study at Home Available

4 Wednesdays - 7/28, 8/04, 08/11, 8/18
7-9PM
Drop-Ins - $10/15!

The concept of an essential self has suffered a radical critique under the postmoderism spectre of the late 20th Century. Of course, the ultimate emptiness of the self - a self devoid of absolute interiority - has been a core teaching in Buddhism since...well...the Buddha. Whether Buddhism was the first postmoderism is up for debate, but
certainly postmoderism has made the doctrine of anātman a more fashionable and palatable idea to the Western mind. Join Ethan Nichtern and Lani Rowe as they discuss the convergences and divergences entailed by the meeting and melding of these two worldviews for contemporary constructions of the self.

About Lani Rowe - Lani Rowe is a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University currently writing her dissertation on the relationship of love to war in the writings of St. Augustine. She is also the Outreach Director of The Interdependence Project.