Liu, JeeLoo, and Douglas L. Berger, eds., Nothingness in Asian Philosophy: New York: Routledge, 2014, xxx + 355 pages

Dao (2016) 15:477481 DOI 10.1007/s11712-016-9513-y Published online: 27 June 2016# Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016 In producing this volume, LIU JeeLoo and Douglas L. Berger coordinated the efforts of twenty scholars at mapping out the articulations and applications of nonbeing, emptiness, and negation in South and East Asian philosophical systems. In the playing-field established by this collection, Brahmanical resistance and modern refashioning serve mainly to emphasize the distinctive power and aesthetic depth of the classical Buddhist and Daoist conceptionsto illustrate their enduring vitality no matter the theoretical problems and practical difficulties they may raise. Chakrabarti spends most of his time * Stephen C. Walker scwalker@uchicago.edu 1 The University of Chicago Divinity School, 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637, USA http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s11712-016-9513-y&domain=pdf Web End = http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s11712-016-9513-y&domain=pdf Web End = Liu, JeeLoo, and Douglas L. Berger, eds., Nothingness in Asian Philosophy New York: Routledge, 2014, xxx + 355 pages Stephen C. Walker1 478 Stephen C. Walker on the first two, exploring the ontology of absences and disambiguating systems that posit real absences from those that posit unreal things. According to Liu, whatever the theoretical tensions within and between Wang and the Daodejing, they agree in foregrounding wus supreme utility as a negative means toward positive ends.