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Brook Ziporyn is a professor of Chinese philosophy, religion and comparative thought at the University of Chicago.[1] He is notable for his work on Daoism, Neo-Confucianism, and Tiantai Buddhism.
Career
editHe has taught Chinese philosophy and religion at the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Harvard University, and the National University of Singapore.
His philosophical works have been commended for rehabilitating Tiantai Buddhism, which was often dismissed by prior writers as mystical.[2][3][4]
His 2024 monograph Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond has been the subject of scholarly engagement, noting its original application of Daoism and Tiantai Buddhism to issues in Western monotheism.[5][6][7][8]
The philosopher Gregory S. Moss has described Ziporyn's oeuvre as a "substantive and profound body of work" in which he has developed a "unique form of dialectical thought."[9]
Selected Works
editBooks
edit- Ziporyn, Brook (2004). Being and ambiguity: philosophical experiments with Tiantai Buddhism. Illinois: Open Court. ISBN 978-0812695427.
- Ziporyn, Brook (2014). Beyond Oneness and Difference: Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-1438448183.
- Ziporyn, Brook (2016). Emptiness and omnipresence: an essential introduction to Tiantai Buddhism. Bloomington: Indiana University press. ISBN 978-0253021120.
- Ziporyn, Brook (2024). Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond. University of Chicago Press.
Translations
edit- Ziporyn, Brook (2020). Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings. Hackett Publishing. ISBN 978-1324092476.
References
edit- ↑ "Brook A. Ziporyn | The University of Chicago Divinity School". divinity.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2026-07-11.
- ↑ Witthaus, Lori (2005-11-01). "Being and Ambiguity: Philosophical Experiments with Tiantai Buddhism". Journal of Asian Studies. 64 (4): 991–993. doi:10.1017/S002191180500238X. ISSN 0021-9118.
- ↑ Angle, Stephen C. (2016-03-01). "Ziporyn, Brook, (1) Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought; Prolegomena to the Study of Li 理 Albany: SUNY Press, 2012, 323 + ix pages (2) Beyond Oneness and Difference: Li 理 in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents Albany: SUNY Press, 2013, 413 + xvii pages". Dao. 15 (1): 149–157. doi:10.1007/s11712-015-9484-4. ISSN 1569-7274.
- ↑ D'Ambrosio, Paul J. (2017). "Brook Ziporyn's (Chinese) Buddhist Reading of Chinese Philosophy". Buddhist Studies Review. 34 (2): 259–267. doi:10.1558/bsrv.35394. ISSN 1747-9681.
- ↑ Chastain, Drew (2026-06-25). "Mystical Atheism, Absurdity, and Meaningful Living". Topoi. doi:10.1007/s11245-026-10434-1. ISSN 1572-8749.
- ↑ Maybell, Scott Ryan (2026-03-18). "Heavenly Mother, If You Exist, Read this: Mormonism as a Mystical Atheism". Topoi. doi:10.1007/s11245-026-10403-8. ISSN 1572-8749.
- ↑ Dockstader, Jason (2025-12-24). "Emulative Intersubsumptive Atheism". Topoi. doi:10.1007/s11245-025-10357-3. ISSN 0167-7411.
- ↑ Birkenstock, Benjamin; Moss, Gregory S. (2026-06-30). "Atheistic Theism: Brook Ziporyn's Mystical Atheism and the Exclusivity of Beatitude". Topoi. doi:10.1007/s11245-026-10436-z. ISSN 0167-7411.
- ↑ Birkenstock, Benjamin; Moss, Gregory S. (2026-06-30). "Atheistic Theism: Brook Ziporyn's Mystical Atheism and the Exclusivity of Beatitude". Topoi. doi:10.1007/s11245-026-10436-z. ISSN 0167-7411.
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