Dreams in Buddhism and Western Aesthetics: Some Thoughts on Play, Style and Space

Author: Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten

Source: Asian Philosophy, Volume 17, Number 1, March 2007 , pp. 65-81(17)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

Several Buddhist schools in India, China and Japan concentrate on the interrelationships between waking and dreaming consciousness. In Eastern philosophy, reality can be seen as a dream and an obscure 'reality beyond' can be considered as real. In spite of the overwhelming Platonic-Aristotelian-Freudian influence existent in Western culture, some Western thinkers and artists - Valéry, Baudelaire, and Schnitzler, for example - have been fascinated by a kind of 'simple presence' contained in dreams. I show that this has consequences for a philosophy of space. According to the authors discussed, the dreamer and the player recognize that human space always means the entire cosmos.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09552360701201189

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