Nonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy

Many Western philosophers are poorly informed about the issues involved in nonduality, since this topic is usually associated with various kinds of absolute idealism in the West, or mystical traditions in the East. Increasingly, however, this topic is finding its way into Western philosophical debates. In this “scholarly but leisurely and very readable” (Spectrum Review) analysis of the philosophies of nondualism of (Hindu) Vedanta, Mahayana Buddhism, and Taoism, Loy extracts what he calls “a core doctrine” of nonduality of seer and seen from these three worldviews and then applies the doctrine in various ways, including a critique of Derrida’s deconstructionism.