当代欧洲哲学以及批判理论一直以来都跟基督教有充沛的交集，但是佛教却没有相同的待遇。这本书填满了这个空缺，主要关注“无求”，也就是佛教非常基本的教学，同时也是黑格尔（Hegel）以及马克思（Marx）的批判理论中主题之一。作者们在这本书中解释了两种主义如何看待无求；佛教、马克思主义以及精神分析如何看待实践的问题；现代“佛教恐惧症”的焦虑等等。
 
好评：
Avital Ronell, New York University
“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.”
 
Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State 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.”
 
关于作者：
 Marcus Boon是多伦多York University的英文教授。
Eric Cazdyn是多伦多大学的美学与政治的杰出教授。
Timothy Morton是美国休斯顿Rice University英文部门的Rita Shea Guffey主席。