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Author Heisig, James W., 1944-

Title Philosophers of nothingness : an essay on the Kyoto school / James W. Heisig.

Publication Info. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description xi, 380 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture
Nanzan library of Asian religion and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-367) and index.
Contents Orientation -- 1. The Kyoto School -- 2. Japanese Philosophy as World Philosophy -- 3. The Background of Western Philosophy in Japan -- 4. Working Assumptions of the Kyoto Philosophers -- 5. The Matter of Language -- 6. The Study of the Kyoto School in the West -- 7. Arrangement of the Material -- Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945) -- 8. Nishida's Life and Career -- 9. Nishida's Philosophical Style -- 10. An Adventure of Ideas -- 11. The Quest of the Absolute -- 12. The Absolute as Pure Experience -- 13. The Absolute as Will -- 14. Self-Awareness -- 15. Active Intuition, Knowing by Becoming -- 16. Art and Morality as Self-Expression -- 17. Absolute Nothingness -- 18. Identity and Opposition -- 19. The Historical World -- 20. The Logic of Locus -- 21. Subject, Predicate, and Universal -- 22. Self and Other -- 23. Love and Responsibility -- 24. Japanese Culture, World Culture -- 25. The Turn to Political Philosophy -- 26. Rudiments of a Political Philosophy -- 27. Religion, God, and Inverse Correlation -- Tanabe Hajime (1885-1962) -- 28. Tanabe's Life and Career -- 29. Tanabe's Philosophical Style -- 30. Pure Experience, Objective Knowledge, Morality -- 31. Pure Relationship, Absolute Mediation -- 32. A Reinterpretation of Absolute Nothingness -- 33. The Origins of the Logic of the Specific -- 34. The Specific and the Sociocultural World12535The Specific and the Nation -- 36. An Ambivalent Nationalism -- 37. Critiques of Tanabe's Nationalism -- 38. Critiques of Tanabe's Political Naivete -- 39. Response to the Criticisms -- 40. Repentance -- 41. Philosophizing the Repentance -- 42. The Logic of Absolute Critique -- 43. Religious Act, Religious Witness -- 44. Self and Self-Awareness -- 45. A Synthesis of Religions -- 46. A Dialectics of Death -- Nishitani Keiji (1900-1990) -- 47. Nishitani's Life and Career -- 48. Nishitani's Philosophical Style -- 49. A Starting Point in Nihilism -- 50. Elemental Subjectivity -- 51. A Philosophy for Nationalism -- 52. Historical Necessity -- 53. Moral Energy and All-Out War -- 54. Overcoming Modernity -- 55. The Religious Dimension of the Political -- 56. Overcoming Nihilism -- 57. From Nihilism to Emptiness -- 58. Emptiness as a Standpoint -- 59. Emptiness as the Homeground of Being -- 60. Ego and Self -- 61. Self, Other, and Ethics -- 62. Science and Nature -- 63. Time and History -- 64. God -- 65. The Embodiment of Awareness -- 66. The Critique of Religion -- Prospectus -- 67. Placing the Kyoto School -- 68. Studying the Kyoto School -- 69. Questions for World Philosophy -- 70. The Encounter between Buddhism and Christianity -- 71. Philosophy and Religion, East and West.
Summary "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."--Pub. desc.
Subject Nishida, Kitarō, 1870-1945.
西田, 幾多郎, (1870-1945)
Nishitani, Keiji, 1900-1990.
Tanabe, Hajime, 1885-1962.
田辺, 元, (1885-1962)
Nishida, Kitarō.
Tanabe, Hajime.
Nishitani, Keiji.
Nishida, Kitarō, 1870-1945. (OCoLC)fst00076008
Nishitani, Keiji, 1900-1990. (OCoLC)fst01447667
Tanabe, Hajime, 1885-1962. (OCoLC)fst00079801
Nishida, Kitarō 1870-1945.
Nishitani, Keiji 1900-1990.
Tanabe, Hajime 1885-1962.
Philosophy, Japanese -- 20th century.
Nothing (Philosophy)
Filosofia -- Século 20 -- Japão.
Kioto-Schule.
Philosophie.
Japan.
Nothing (Philosophy) (OCoLC)fst01039602
Philosophy, Japanese. (OCoLC)fst01061013
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Geschichte 1900-2000
Other Form: Online version: Heisig, James W., 1944- Philosophers of nothingness. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2001 (OCoLC)606554324
Online version: Heisig, James W., 1944- Philosophers of nothingness. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2001 (OCoLC)607766329
ISBN 0824824806 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780824824808 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0824824814 (paperback)
9780824824815 (paperback)
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