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Last Writings

Author : Nishida Kitaro
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824815547
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Last Writings written by Nishida Kitaro and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nishida Kitarô, Japan's premier modern philosopher, was born in 1870 and grew to intellectual maturity in the final decades of the Meiji period (1868–1912). He achieved recognition as Japan's leading establishment philosopher during his tenure as professor of philosophy at Kyoto University. After his retirement in 1927, and until his death in 1945, Nishida published a continuous stream of original essays that can best be described as intercivilizational, a meeting point of East and West. His final essay, "The Logic of the Place of Nothingness and the Religious Worldview," completed in the last few months before his death, is a summation of his philosophy of religion and has come to be regarded as the foundational text of the Kyoto school. It is one of the few places in his writings where Nishida draws openly and freely on East Asian Buddhist sources as analogs of his own ideas. Here Nishida argues for the existential primordiality of the religious consciousness against Kant, while also critically engaging the thought of such authors as Aristotle, the Christian Neo-Platonists, Spinoza, Fichte, Hegel, Barth, and Tillich. He makes it clear that he is also indebted to Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Dostoievsky as well as to Nâgârjuna, the Ch'an masters, Shinran, Dôgen, and other Buddhist thinkers. This book--a translation of the most seminal work of Nishida's career--also includes a translation of his "Last Writing" (Zeppitsu), written just two days before his death.

The Nothingness Beyond God

Author : Robert Edgar Carter
Publisher : New York : Paragon House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Nothingness Beyond God written by Robert Edgar Carter and published by New York : Paragon House. This book was released on 1989 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we hear the term "Japanese philosophy" we think of Zen Buddhism or the Shinto scriptures. Yet one of the great 20th century interpreters of Western philosophy, Nishida Kitaro, lived and wrote in the Japanese islands all his life, laboring at an ultimate synthesis of oriental thought and Western hermeneutics. To be sure, Nishida's aim was to understand his own cultural influences in relation to the Western world. What distinguished him, however, was his passion for rendering oriental metaphysics understandable in the language of Western philosophy, and his attempts to contrast the paradoxicality of Buddhist logic with the logical strategies of Aristotle, Kant, or Hegel. Featured in this book is an interpretation of Nishida's writings. Professor Carter focuses on the Japanese thinker's notion of "basho," a concept of nothingness as field, place or topos as borrowed from Plato's Tim'us. Expounding on the logical foundations and archaic elements in Nishida's work, and carefully explaining Nishida's critical approach to the questions of God, religion and morality, and pure existence, this discerning book offers students of Western philosophy and oriental thought alike a highly readable introduction to the teachings of a true world philosopher.

The Logic of Nothingness

Author : Robert J. J. Wargo
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824873890
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Nothingness written by Robert J. J. Wargo and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of Nishida Kitarô, whose name has become almost synonymous with Japanese philosophy, continue to attract attention around the world. Yet studies of his thought in Western languages have tended to overlook two key areas: first, the influence of the generation of Japanese philosophers who preceded Nishida; and second, the logic of basho (place), the cornerstone of Nishida’s mature philosophical system. The Logic of Nothingness addresses both of these topics. Robert Wargo argues that the overriding concern of Nishida’s mature philosophy, the attempt to give a reasonable account of reality that includes the reasonableness of that account itself—or what Wargo calls "the problem of completeness"—has its origins in Inoue Enryo’s (1858–1919) and Inoue Tetsujiro’s (1855–1944) preoccupation with "the problem of standpoints." A translation of one of Nishida’s most demanding texts, included here as an appendix, demonstrates the value of Wargo’s insightful analysis of the logic of basho as an aid to deciphering the philosopher’s early work.

Ontology of Production

Author : Kitarō Nishida
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822351803
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Ontology of Production written by Kitarō Nishida and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nishida KitarM (1870&–1945) was a Japanese philosopher, and the founder of what has been called the Kyoto School of philosophy. Havor has selected these three essays for translation because they will be politically and philosophically useful for contemporary theorists. The essays examine philosophical issues concerning the concepts of poesis and praxis relevant to Marxs ideas of production.

An Inquiry into the Good

Author : Kitaro Nishida
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300052336
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book An Inquiry into the Good written by Kitaro Nishida and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Inquiry into the Good, the earliest work of Kitarō Nishida, established its author as the foremost Japanese philosopher of the twentieth century. The book represents the foundation of Nishida's philosophy, which reflects both his deep study of Zen Buddhism and his thorough analysis of Western philosophy. In this important new translation, two scholars -- one Japanes and one American -- have worked together to present a lucid and accurate rendition of this basic work. They have also included an enlightening introduction and ample notes to aid the Western reader. Nishida sets forth the notion of "pure experience"--The concept that pure, or direct, experience precedes the separation of subject and object and is true reality. He next considers reality, investigating its relation to thinking, volition, and intuition. The Good, which Nishida considered to be the realization of our internal demands or ideals, is analyzed in the light of the nature of reality and pure experience. In conclusion, Nishida suggests a theory of God as the unifier of the universe and the universe as an expression of God. Throughout he touches upon the work of Western philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Fichte, William James, and John Dewey in order to explicate his ideas"-- Front flap.

Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture

Author : Keiji Nishitani
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520073647
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture written by Keiji Nishitani and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years several books by major figures in Japan's modern philosophical tradition have appeared in English, exciting readers by their explorations of the borderlands between philosophy and religion. What has been wanting, however, is a book in a Western language to elucidate the life and thought of Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), Japan's first philosopher of world stature and the originator of what has come to be called the Kyoto School. No one is more qualified to write such a book than Nishitani Keiji, whose lifetime coincides with the rise and flowering of the Kyoto School and whose own critical contribution to Japanese thought has been so important. Nishida Kitaro is a translation of essays Nishitani wrote about his teacher from 1936 to 1968 and published as a book in 1985. This series of meditations by one master on another provides a remarkable, living portrait of Nishida the person and conveys the enthusiasm he aroused in his students. Examining Nishida's most important work, An Inquiry into the Good, Nishitani penetrates to the core of his thought and presents it in language that is a marvel of clarity.

Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness

Author : Kitaro Nishida
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438414749
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness written by Kitaro Nishida and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1987-01-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nishida Kitaro's reformulation of the major issues of Western philosophy from a Zen standpoint of "absolute nothingness" and "absolutely contradictory self-identity" represents the boldest speculative enterprise of modern Japan, continued today by his successors in the "Kyoto School" of philosophy. This English translation of Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness evokes the movement and flavor of the original, clarifies its obscurities, and eliminates the repetitions. It sheds new light on the philosopher's career, revealing a long struggle with such thinkers as Cohen, Natorp, Husserl, Fichte, and Bergson, that ended with Nishida's break from the basic ontological assumptions of the West. Throughout labyrinthine arguments, Nishida never loses sight of his theme: the irreducibility and unobjectifiability of the act of self-consciousness which constitutes the self. Extensive annotation is provided for the first time in any edition of Nishida's work. Historians of Japanese philosophy and culture, and all those interested in the interaction of Eastern and Western thought-forms, now have a document which highlights many of the cultural, psychological, and intellectual dynamics that have shaped Japanese intellectual life in one of its most fascinating and ambitious manifestations.

Zen and Philosophy

Author : Michiko Yusa
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824824594
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Zen and Philosophy written by Michiko Yusa and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-03-31 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive work on the first and greatest of Japan's twentieth-century philosophers, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945). Interspersed throughout the narrative of Nishida's life and thought is a generous selection of the philosopher's own essays, letters, and short presentations, newly translated into English.

Philosophers of Nothingness

Author : James W. Heisig
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824824815
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Philosophers of Nothingness written by James W. Heisig and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past twenty years have seen the publication of numerous translations and commentaries on the principal philosophers of the Kyoto School, but so far no general overview and evaluation of their thought has been available, either in Japanese or in Western languages. James Heisig, a longstanding participant in these efforts, has filled that gap with Philosophers of Nothingness. In this extensive study, the ideas of Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe Hajime, and Nishitani Keiji are presented both as a consistent school of thought in its own right and as a challenge to the Western philosophical tradition to open itself to the original contribution of Japan.

Intelligibility and the philosophy of nothingness

Author : K.Nishida
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5872499671
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Intelligibility and the philosophy of nothingness written by K.Nishida and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1973 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligibility and the philosophy of nothingness. Three philosophical essays. Translated with an introduction by Robert Schinzinger.

Kitarō Nishida’s Philosophy of Life

Author : Tatsuya Higaki
Publisher : Mimesis
ISBN 13 : 8869773167
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Kitarō Nishida’s Philosophy of Life written by Tatsuya Higaki and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2020-12-11T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nishida Kitarō’s Philosophy of Life traces the development of the philosopher’s thought by focusing on the keyword “life” as a unifying thread. Active from the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, Nishida was part of the first generation of Japanese philosophers who tried to develop an original philosophy under the influence of – and in response to – Western philosophy. In his native Japan, he has often been interpreted in the context of Eastern thought and Zen Buddhism, as well as in relation to phenomenology (i.e., Husserl and Heidegger). The current volume instead presents an alternative reading of Nishida, noting the influence of William James, Henri Bergson and Neo-Kantianism on his thought, and highlighting a line of development that runs in parallel to the thought of the midtwentieth century French philosopher, Gilles Deleuze.

The Body

Author : Yasuo Yuasa
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143842468X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Body written by Yasuo Yuasa and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1987-07-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores mind-body philosophy from an Asian perspective. It sheds new light on a problem central in modern Western thought. Yuasa shows that Eastern philosophy has generally formulated its view of mind-body unity as an achievement a state to be acquired—rather than as essential or innate. Depending on the individual's own developmental state, the mind-body connection can vary from near dissociation to almost perfect integration. Whereas Western mind-body theories have typically asked what the mind-body is, Yuasa asks how the mind-body relation varies on a spectrum from the psychotic to the yogi, from the debilitated to the athletic, from the awkward novice to the master musician. Yuasa first examines various Asian texts dealing with Buddhist meditation, kundalini yoga, acupuncture, ethics, and epistemology, developing a concept of the "dark consciousness" (not identical with the psychoanalytic unconscious) as a vehicle for explaining their basic view. He shows that the mind-body image found in those texts has a striking correlation to themes in contemporary French phenomenology, Jungian psychoanalysis, psychomatic medicine, and neurophysiology. The book clears the ground for a provocative meeting between East and West, establishing a philosophical region on which science and religion can be mutually illuminating.

Nishida Kitaro's Chiasmatic Chorology

Author : John W. M. Krummel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253017866
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Nishida Kitaro's Chiasmatic Chorology written by John W. M. Krummel and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nishida Kitaro (1870–1945) is considered Japan's first and greatest modern philosopher. As founder of the Kyoto School, he began a rigorous philosophical engagement and dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, especially the work of G. W. F. Hegel. John W. M. Krummel explores the Buddhist roots of Nishida's thought and places him in connection with Hegel and other philosophers of the Continental tradition. Krummel develops notions of self-awareness, will, being, place, the environment, religion, and politics in Nishida's thought and shows how his ethics of humility may best serve us in our complex world.

Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture

Author : Graham Mayeda
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149857209X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture written by Graham Mayeda and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every part of the world and in every era, philosophers have reflected on the meaning of culture and its philosophical significance. Japanese Philosophers on Society and Culture:Nishida Kitarō, Watsuji Tetsurō, and Kuki Shūzō explores how three of Japan's preeminent philosophers of the twentieth century—Nishida Kitarō, Watsuji Tetsurō and Kuki Shūzō—defined culture and analyzed what it tells us about social relations. Graham Mayeda also explores little-known aspects of the work of each philosopher, including a philosophical analysis of Watsuji's travel diary, Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in Nara, the place of intuition in Kuki's ethics of otherness, and the role of culture in realizing Nishida's concept of reality as the historical world. Each of these three philosophers adapted philosophical methodologies such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, and dialectical logic to studying the traditional sources of Japanese culture: Confucianism, Buddhism, Bushidō and Shintō. This book focuses on the way that Nishida, Watsuji and Kuki critiqued the methodologies that they adopted from European philosophy and modified them to reflect the values that form the basis of their own cultural tradition. Finally, Mayeda engages with the problem of cultural essentialism by identifying the progressive and conservative elements of each philosopher's characterization of Japanese culture.

INside EDition

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book INside EDition written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-08 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philosophy of Science and The Kyoto School

Author : Dean Anthony Brink
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350141097
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Science and The Kyoto School written by Dean Anthony Brink and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : relativity and quantum physics in the Kyoto School -- Nishida philosophy, place, field, and quantum phenomena -- Mediation in Tanabe's dialectical vision of competing fields within physics -- Modern physics, space, and ideology in Tosaka Jun -- What we can learn from the Kyoto School.

Nishida Kitaro

Author : Nishitani Keiji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788154362
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Nishida Kitaro written by Nishitani Keiji and published by . This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of essays Nishitani wrote from 1936 to 1968, about his teacher, Nishida Kitaro, Japan's first philosopher of world stature & the originator of what has come to be called the Kyoto School. They were collected & published as a book in 1985. No one is more qualified to write such a book than Nishitani, whose lifetime coincides with the rise & flowering of the Kyoto School & whose own critical contribution to Japanese thought has been so important. This series of meditations by one master on another provides a remarkable, living portrait of Nishida the person & conveys the excitement he aroused in his students.