Vol. 13 No. 3 (2025): Thematic Focus: Nothingness. Part II: Sublating Nothingness: Openness, Freedom and Imagination

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/as.2025.13.3

Published: 1. 09. 2025

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Editor’s Foreword

• Part II of the Double Issue on Nothingness

  Jana S. ROŠKER

  7-10

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Transcultural Comparisons

• Buddhism, Nothingness, and Pessimism From Schopenhauer to Nietzsche

  Eric S. NELSON

  13-32

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• Nothing for Children Buddhist and Daoist Motifs in Michael Ende’s Phantastic Novels

  Mario WENNING

  33-52

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• Mu 無 as Structural Ground Reinterpreting Saussure’s Structuralism Through Nishida Kitarō’s Logic of Basho

  YANG Xiaobo

  53-68

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Freedom and Beauty

• The Beauty of Emptiness—The Foundational Root of Chinese Aesthetics

  Téa SERNELJ

  71-93

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• Is Freedom Nothing?

  Luka PERUŠIĆ

  95-133

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Analytical Approaches

• Nothingness of Dao in the Daodejing A Mereological Interpretation

  Rafal BANKA

  137-151

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• Fictionally Fictional Object The Alleged Objecthood of Nothingness

  Wai Lok CHEUNG

  153-162

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• Distinguishing Emptiness from Nothingness A Comparative Analysis Using Zhang Dongsun’s Panstructural Epistemology

  Jana S. ROŠKER

  163-184

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The Buddhist Legacies in Indian and Japanese Ideas on Nothingness

• “Nothingness”—A Comparative-Philosophical Interaction in the Field between East and West

  Hisaki HASHI

  187-212

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• Beyond Duality Exploring “Nothingness” in the Advaita Vedānta and the Madhyamaka Traditions of Indian Buddhism

  Pankaj VAISHNAV

  213-243

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THE WINNING ESSAY OF THE EACP YOUNG SCHOLARS AWARD COMPETITION

• The (Non)Active Company of Forces A Deleuzian Reading of the Affected Agential Self in “Boundless Wandering” in Zhuangzi

  Shanni Sunny TSAI

  247-276

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OTHER TOPICS

• From Grasping to Shaping Reality Proper Naming in the Statecraft Chapters of the Chunqiu Fanlu

  Ivana BULJAN

  279-311

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• Žižek “With Chinese Characteristics” Radical Theory and Its Selective Reception

  Yue WU

  313-335

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ASIAN STUDIES IN SLOVENIA

• Political-religious History of Ladakh

  Sebastijan PEŠEC

  339-357

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BOOK REVIEWS

• Jessica Rawson: Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

  Manuel RIVERA ESPINOZA

  361-365

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• Matthieu Felt: Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan

  B.V.E. HYDE

  367-371

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