Papers by Julian Butterfield
East asian journal of philosophy, 2024
Contents -Dynamic Encounters Between Buddhism and the West Introduction Laura Langone & A... more Contents -Dynamic Encounters Between Buddhism and the West Introduction Laura Langone & Alexandra Ilieva 1-6 -Early Encounters With Buddhism Some medieval European travelogue authors offer first insights into a foreign religion. Explorations of an unchartered territory Albrecht Classen 7-24 -Declaring Buddhism Dead in the 19th Century The Meiji oligarchy and protestant mission in Japan a foreign religion. Explorations of an unchartered territory Tomoe I. M. Steineck 25-45 -Between Awakening and Enlightenment The first modern Asian Buddhist and the first Buddhist Englishman Iain Sinclair 47-73 -Sublime Disappearances Feeling Buddhism in late-nineteenth-century Western music Julian Butterfield 75-93 -Absolute Nothingness and World History Universalizing Asian logic as a world-historical mission Niklas Söderman 95-113 -Befriending Things on a Field of Energies With Dōgen and Nietzsche Graham Parkes 115-137 -Wabi-Sabi and Kei How Sen no Rikyū’s Zen-inspired ideas of human placedness and interpersonal respect enable a human-present world-harmonizing (Wa) within object-oriented ontology Jason Morgan 139-157 -The Question Concerning Technology A Japanese reply Tiago Mesquita Carvalho 159-187 -Madhyamaka and Pyrrhonian Approaches to the Skeptical Way of Life Christopher Paone 189-209 -Two Paths A critique of Husserl's view of the Buddha Jason K. Day 211-232
East Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2024
This essay explores how the Buddhist-inspired works of two late-nineteenth-century western compos... more This essay explores how the Buddhist-inspired works of two late-nineteenth-century western composers, Richard Wagner and Dudley Buck, interpret Buddhist source material through the aesthetic discourse of the sublime dominant in post-Romantic music. In the opera Parsifal (1882), Wagner develops his philosophy of nirvāṇic sound into experimental passages intended to provoke spiritually intense feelings of transcendence, while Buck's 1886 musical adaptation of Edwin Arnold's The Light of Asia derives the sublime style of Handelian oratorio to engage his audience in a grand celebration of moral renewal. Despite their different approaches to mediating the sublime, both Wagner and Buck use it to present Buddhism directly to the feelings of their listeners, while by the same token dissolving its troubling foreign embodiment into sound. Ultimately, this essay argues that such appeals to feeling represent a significant yet underexplored dimension in Buddhism's history and experience in the west, contributing to its subjectivization and detraditionalization.
Edited Journal Issues by Julian Butterfield
East Asian Journal of Philosophy, 2024
Contents
-Dynamic Encounters Between Buddhism and the West
Introduction
Laura Langone & Alexand... more Contents
-Dynamic Encounters Between Buddhism and the West
Introduction
Laura Langone & Alexandra Ilieva
1-6
-Early Encounters With Buddhism
Some medieval European travelogue authors offer first insights into a foreign religion. Explorations of an unchartered territory
Albrecht Classen
7-24
-Declaring Buddhism Dead in the 19th Century
The Meiji oligarchy and protestant mission in Japan a foreign religion. Explorations of an unchartered territory
Tomoe I. M. Steineck
25-45
-Between Awakening and Enlightenment
The first modern Asian Buddhist and the first Buddhist Englishman
Iain Sinclair
47-73
-Sublime Disappearances
Feeling Buddhism in late-nineteenth-century Western music
Julian Butterfield
75-93
-Absolute Nothingness and World History
Universalizing Asian logic as a world-historical mission
Niklas Söderman
95-113
-Befriending Things on a Field of Energies
With Dōgen and Nietzsche
Graham Parkes
115-137
-Wabi-Sabi and Kei
How Sen no Rikyū’s Zen-inspired ideas of human placedness and interpersonal respect enable a human-present world-harmonizing (Wa) within object-oriented ontology
Jason Morgan
139-157
-The Question Concerning Technology
A Japanese reply
Tiago Mesquita Carvalho
159-187
-Madhyamaka and Pyrrhonian Approaches to the Skeptical Way of Life
Christopher Paone
189-209
-Two Paths
A critique of Husserl's view of the Buddha
Jason K. Day
211-232
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Papers by Julian Butterfield
Edited Journal Issues by Julian Butterfield
-Dynamic Encounters Between Buddhism and the West
Introduction
Laura Langone & Alexandra Ilieva
1-6
-Early Encounters With Buddhism
Some medieval European travelogue authors offer first insights into a foreign religion. Explorations of an unchartered territory
Albrecht Classen
7-24
-Declaring Buddhism Dead in the 19th Century
The Meiji oligarchy and protestant mission in Japan a foreign religion. Explorations of an unchartered territory
Tomoe I. M. Steineck
25-45
-Between Awakening and Enlightenment
The first modern Asian Buddhist and the first Buddhist Englishman
Iain Sinclair
47-73
-Sublime Disappearances
Feeling Buddhism in late-nineteenth-century Western music
Julian Butterfield
75-93
-Absolute Nothingness and World History
Universalizing Asian logic as a world-historical mission
Niklas Söderman
95-113
-Befriending Things on a Field of Energies
With Dōgen and Nietzsche
Graham Parkes
115-137
-Wabi-Sabi and Kei
How Sen no Rikyū’s Zen-inspired ideas of human placedness and interpersonal respect enable a human-present world-harmonizing (Wa) within object-oriented ontology
Jason Morgan
139-157
-The Question Concerning Technology
A Japanese reply
Tiago Mesquita Carvalho
159-187
-Madhyamaka and Pyrrhonian Approaches to the Skeptical Way of Life
Christopher Paone
189-209
-Two Paths
A critique of Husserl's view of the Buddha
Jason K. Day
211-232
-Dynamic Encounters Between Buddhism and the West
Introduction
Laura Langone & Alexandra Ilieva
1-6
-Early Encounters With Buddhism
Some medieval European travelogue authors offer first insights into a foreign religion. Explorations of an unchartered territory
Albrecht Classen
7-24
-Declaring Buddhism Dead in the 19th Century
The Meiji oligarchy and protestant mission in Japan a foreign religion. Explorations of an unchartered territory
Tomoe I. M. Steineck
25-45
-Between Awakening and Enlightenment
The first modern Asian Buddhist and the first Buddhist Englishman
Iain Sinclair
47-73
-Sublime Disappearances
Feeling Buddhism in late-nineteenth-century Western music
Julian Butterfield
75-93
-Absolute Nothingness and World History
Universalizing Asian logic as a world-historical mission
Niklas Söderman
95-113
-Befriending Things on a Field of Energies
With Dōgen and Nietzsche
Graham Parkes
115-137
-Wabi-Sabi and Kei
How Sen no Rikyū’s Zen-inspired ideas of human placedness and interpersonal respect enable a human-present world-harmonizing (Wa) within object-oriented ontology
Jason Morgan
139-157
-The Question Concerning Technology
A Japanese reply
Tiago Mesquita Carvalho
159-187
-Madhyamaka and Pyrrhonian Approaches to the Skeptical Way of Life
Christopher Paone
189-209
-Two Paths
A critique of Husserl's view of the Buddha
Jason K. Day
211-232