What Zen?
Zen Critique is an aporetic approach to the challenges of the twenty-first century, one that understands aporia as a necessary interruption of inherited assumptions rather than a withdrawal from the world. Moving beyond intra-disciplinary debates within Zen or Buddhist Studies, it situates Zen within the contemporary condition of polycrisis—including hyper-individualism, overconsumption, digital–AI acceleration, and climate breakdown—and articulates Zen as a somatic praxis: a resource for socially engaged and pragmatic forms of critique and practice grounded in embodied experience.
Zen, Buddhist Philosophy, and Critical Zen
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