Westliche Philosophie entdeckt Nagarjuna aber gerade erst.
Sorry, aber das ist schlicht Quark, wie auch Scobels "die westliche Philosophie hat von seinem umfassenden Werk bisher kaum Kenntnis genommen". Nicht nur sind die MMK das am häufigsten übersetzte Werk buddhistischer Philosophie; die erste deutsche Übersetzung stammt von 1911 (aus dem Tibetischen) bzw. 1912 (aus dem Chinesischen), beide von Max Walleser. Akademische Standardübersetzung in Deutsch von Weber / Brosamer-Back 1997. Eine kritische Edition des Sanskrittextes steht seit 1977 zur Verfügung (de Jong).
Studenten, die sich im Rahmen Philosophiegeschichte oder Weltphilosphie mit Nagarjuna befassen, bekommen idR eine Literaturliste mit Sekundärliteratur, die dann etwa so aussehen kann (umfasst nur die wichtigeren Arbeiten der letzten 40 Jahre):
Bhattacharya, Kamaleswar, E.H. Johnston and A. Kunst, 1986 (2002 neu aufgelegt). The Dialectical Method of Nāgārjuna: Vigrahavyāvartanī, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
Burton, David, 1999. Emptiness Appraised: A Critical Study of Nāgārjuna’s Philosophy, Richmond: Curzon.
Devitt, Michael, 1997. Realism and Truth, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, second edition.
Ganeri, Jonardon, “Rationality, Emptiness, and the Objective View,” in Philosophy in Classical India (London: 2001), ch. 2.
Garfield, Jay, 1994. “Dependent co-origination and the emptiness of emptiness: why did Nāgārjuna begin with causation?”, Philosophy East and West, 44: 219–250.
–––, 2001. “Nāgārjuna’s theory of causation: implications sacred and profane”, Philosophy East and West, 51(4): 507–524.
–––, 2015. Engaging Buddhism. Why It Matters to Philosophy, Oxford University Press: New York.
Goodman, Charles, 2004. “The Treasury of Metaphysics and the Physical World”, Philosophical Quarterly, 54 (216): 389–401.
Huntington, C.W., 1989. The Emptiness of Emptiness. A Study of Early Indian Mādhyamika, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
Katsura Shoryu and Mark Siderits, Nāgārjuna’s Middle Way: Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā (Boston: 2013)
Lindtner, Christian, 1982. Nagarjuniana. Studies in the Writings and Philosophy of Nāgārjuna, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.
Mabbett, Ian, 1998. “The problem of the historical Nagarjuna revisited”, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 118(3): 332–346.
McGuire, Robert, 2017. “An all-new timeless truth”, Contemporary Buddhism, 18(2): 385–401.
Oetke, Claus, 2003. “Some remarks on theses and philosophical positions in early Madhyamaka”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 31: 449–478.
–––, 1989. “Rationalismus und Mystik in der Philosophie Nāgārjunas”, Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik, 15: 1–39.
Priest, Graham, 2009. The structure of emptiness, Philosophy East and West, 59(4): 467–480
–––, 2014. One, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Priest, Graham and Jay Garfield, 2002. “Nāgārjuna and the limits of thought”, in Beyond the Limits of Thought, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 249–270.
Robinson, Richard, “Did Nāgārjuna Really Refute All Philosophical Views?” Philosophy East and West 22 (1972), 325-31.
Ruegg, David Seyfort, 1977. “The use of the four positions of the catuṣkoṭi and the problem of the description of reality in Mahāyāna Buddhism”. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 5: 1–171.
–––, 1981. The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India, Wiesbaden: Harassowitz.
–––, 1986. “Does the Mādhyamika have a thesis and philosophical position?”, in Bimal Krishna Matilal (ed.), Buddhist Logic and Epistemology, Dordrecht: D. Reidel, pp. 229–237.
Sagal, Paul T., “Nāgārjuna’s Paradox,” American Philosophical Quarterly 29 (1992), 79-85.
Siderits, Mark, 2004. “Causation and emptiness in early Madhyamika”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 32: 393–419.
–––, 2003. Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy, Aldershot: Ashgate.
–––, 2000. “Nyāya realism, Buddhist critique”, in Bina Gupta (ed.), The Empirical and the Transcendental, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 219–231.
–––, 1989. “Thinking on empty: Madhyamaka anti-realism and canons of rationality”, in Shlomo Biderman and Ben-Ami Scharfenstein (eds.), Rationality in Question, Leiden: E.J. Brill, pp. 231–249.
–––, 1980. “The Madhyamaka critique of epistemology”. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 8: 307–335.
–––, 2014. “Causation, ‘Humean’ causation and emptiness”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 42: 433–449.
–––, 2016. Studies in Buddhist Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
–––, 2022. How Things Are. An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Siderits, Mark and J. Dervin O’Brien, 1976. “Zeno and Nāgārjuna on Motion”, Philosophy East and West, 26(3): 281–299.
Jonathan Stoltz, 2021: Illuminating the Mind. An Introduction to Buddhist Epistemology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Spackman, John, 2014. Between nihilism and anti-essentialism: a conceptualist interpretation of Nāgārjuna, Philosophy East and West, 61(1): 151–173.
Tillemans, Tom, 2001. “Trying to be fair to Mādhyamika Buddhism”, The Numata Yehan Lecture in Buddhism, University of Calgary, Canada.
–––, 2003. “Metaphysics for Mādhyamikas”, in Georges Dreyfus and Sara McClintock (eds.), The Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika Distinction: What Difference does a Difference make?, Boston: Wisdom, pp. 93–123.
Tuck, Andrew P., 1990. Comparative Philosophy and the Philosophy of Scholarship: on the Western Interpretation of Nāgārjuna, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Walser, Joseph, 2005. Nāgārjuna in Context. Mahāyāna Buddhism and Early Indian Culture, New York: Columbia University Press.
Westerhoff, Jan, 2009. Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka. A Philosophical Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
–––, 2016: “On the nihilist interpretation of Madhyamaka”. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 44: 337–376.
–––, 2017: “Nāgārjuna on emptiness: a comprehensive critique of foundationalism”, in Jonardon Ganeri (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
–––, 2020: The Non-Existence of the Real World, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
–––, 2021: “An argument for ontological nihilism”. Inquiry, doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2021.1934268
Wood, Thomas E., 1994. Nāgārjunian Disputations. A Philosophical Journey through an Indian Looking-glass, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
Ye, Shaoyong, 2011. Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Research Institute of Sanskrit Manuscripts & Buddhist Literature, Beijing.