Self and Society

Steven Collins is Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago and a council member of the Pali Text Society.

• PrefacePali Literature1. On the Very Idea of the Pali Canon2. Notes on Some Oral Aspects of Pali Literature3. What Is Literature in Pali?The Theory and Practice of Not-Self4. What Are Buddhist Doing When They Deny the Self?5. The Body in Theravada Buddhist Monasticism6. A Buddhist Debate About the Self, and Remarks on Buddhism in the Work of Derek Parfit and Galen Strawson7. Of Death and TreesBuddhism and Society8. Monasticism, Utopias and Comparative Social Theory9. Louis Dumont and the Study of Religions10. Buddhist "Nuns" (Mae chi) and the Teaching of Pali in Thailand (With Justin McDaniel)BibliographyIndex