![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, my claim is that understanding some of the Buddhist ideas helps us understand The Coming Insurrection more deeply (both its promise and its flaws), and that addressing the question of no-self in a political venue also helps reveal some of the limitations of Buddhism as a social philosophy. Paul Eaton co-authored a recent op-ed about the fear that a coup could succeed after the 2024 elections. ![]() The proposed paper examines the Buddhist doctrine of no-self to help illuminate the possibilities of giving up a self, and it also examines The Coming Insurrection to ask whether the Buddhist approach is too individualistic and apolitical. ![]() Indeed, this part of the book's argument links it directly (if not explicitly) to Buddhism's argument that one of the main causes of suffering is the self and the illusion that the self is separate from everything else. But the book is much more interesting than that, because it makes a suggestion that is radical in Western political theory-that the self is a hindrance to freedom (that much is familiar) and that we would be better off simply not having a self at all (that part isn't). The recent book The Coming Insurrection has been at the center of a terrorism trial in France, with the prosecutors arguing that the defendants sabotaged train lines to live out the book's call for anarcho-autonomist resistance to the state. ![]()
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