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Title: Conventional realism
Review: First, I must say that I read the book in French,so that my comment concerns neither the translationnor any possible notes.This presentation of Zen reduces it to yet anotherrealism. It assumes the existence of a universalreality which has to be uncovered.In this, it doesn't depart from e.g. Platonism.The book uses an existentialist vocabulary, whichprobably shows its age, but without the authorreally mastering the concepts.A clear example is 'néant' (excuse my French),which is more or less treated as a negativecounterpart to (positive) Being.Well, not so in the Hegelian tradition followedby Heidegger and Sartre.In short, a work of involuntary demystification.
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