This book examines and compares the philosophical positions of various postmodern thinkers and Zen Buddhist philosophers on:language and play; modes of thinking; skepticism and doubt; self and other; time and death; nihilism and metaphysics; and the conception of the end of philosophy. The Zen thinkers dealt with are Dogen and Nishitani,and the Western thinkers are Derrida, Lacan,Heidegger,Lyotard,Foucault,Deleuze and Guattari,Kristeva, and Levinas.