"I have contemplated and endured 'nothing' for so long that it did not seem right to break my practice or offer other readers something like insight, possibly a moment of sense making and affirmation. But I break out of my trance to assert the emphatic necessity of this book, so erudite without loading us down, relentless in its ability to resignify. Sassy, brilliant, a genuine engagement with and of thought, this work tunes us to a thrilling, endorphinating way of thinking: my drug of choice."--Avital Ronell, New York University
"The reader will delight in two important aspects of Nothing: a multitude of contemporary Buddhist responses to the great political and social changes that have affected Asian countries--imperialism, colonialism, communism, corporate capitalism--and rigorous elaboration of Lacanian psychoanalysis with Buddhist psychology. This book is exceptional."--Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University
"Nothing is wide-ranging, and the essays are rich and well researched, drawing on all sides, including analytic philosophical approaches to Buddhism."-- "Choice"
"Nothing's overarching contribution clarifies the problematics of Buddhist critical theory as the intra-active, performative effects of a mutualizing ethico-ontoepistemology. This invites critical mindfulness of the immediate existential-material circumstances that may at once inspire and constrain any given attempt/location of Buddhist critical theory."-- "Religious Studies Review"
"A serious and significant engagement with critical theory and Buddhism."-- "Speculative Non-Buddhism"