Download or read book Nothingness and Desire written by James W. Heisig and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six lectures that make up this work were delivered in March 2011 at London University's School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as they apply to a re-examination of the questions of self, God, morality, property, and the East-West philosophical divide.