Re: Buddhism and Salinger as promised

J J R (jrovira@juno.com)
Sat, 13 Jun 1998 17:38:25 -0400 (EDT)

<<Poststructuralism doesn't obtain in the East, and language probably
reaches into silence all the time, there.  But where does Salinger (or
Suzuki, for that matter) ever try to escape language?
-- 
Matt Kozusko    mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu>>

It's not uncommon for parallels to be drawn poststructuralism between
postructuralims and eastern thought--even the book _Derrida for
Beginners_ goes into this facet of poststructuralism toward the end. 

Whenever you're comparing two Different things, similarities and
differences will always be found.  When you believe the similarities
outweigh the differences, that doesn't mean the differences are
insignificant.  How much weight we attach to them is always a judgment
call.  Yes, Salinger definitely presents a western version of eastern
thought.  A westerner reading Eastern texts in English with a western
frame of mind will, no doubt, even then be getting a western version of
eastern thoughts...

Jim

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