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Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview » Read Now
by Nishida Kitaro. 156 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library
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Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School, & the Question of Nationalism ("Ethical Pitfalls in Imperial Zen and Nishida Philosophy" begins on p. 16, Part Two "Questioning Nishida," and "The Problem of Modernity in the Philosophy of Nishida" begins on p. 151) » Read Now
by James W. Heisig, John C. Maraldo. 384 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

To many scholars in the world of religious studies, Zen is a world apart from the world of politics, and the philosophy of the Kyoto school is a politically neutral blend of intellectual traditions East and West, Buddhist and Christian. This volume challenges those assumptions by focusing on the...
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To many scholars in the world of religious studies, Zen is a world apart from the world of politics, and the philosophy of the Kyoto school is a politically neutral blend of intellectual traditions East and West, Buddhist and Christian. This volume challenges those assumptions by focusing on the question of nationalism in the work of Japanese Buddhist thinkers during and after the Pacific War. Fifteen Japanese and Western scholars offer a variety of critical perspectives concerning the political responsibility of intellectuals and the concrete historical consequences of working within a religious or philosophical tradition. The first group of essays debates the role of Zen Buddhism in wartime Japan. A second group of essays examines the political thought and activities of Nishida Kitaro, the doyen of the Kyoto school. A third group of essays questions the complicity of other philosophers of the Kyoto school in the wartime spirit of nationalism and analyzes the ideas of modernity and the modern nation-state then current in Japan. This carefully documented volume offers a wealth of information and reflection for those interested in prewar and wartime history, Zen, Japanese philosophy, and the problem of nationalism today.
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Comparative Dialectics: Nishida Kitaro's Logic of Place and Western Dialectical Thought, in Philosophy East & West » Read Now
by G. S. Axtell. 22 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory (Chap. Two "Nishida Kitaro's View of the Body") » Read Now
by Thomas P. Kasulis, Thomas P. Kasulis, Nagatomo Shigenori, Yasuo Yuasa. 256 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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The Philosophy of History in the "Later" Nishida: A Philosophic Turn, in Philosophy East & West » Read Now
by Woo-Sung Huh. 32 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library
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The Problem of the Self in the Later Nishida and in Sartre, in Philosophy East & West » Read Now
by Brian D. Elwood. 14 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Experience and Culture: Nishida's Path "To the Things Themselves," in Philosophy East & West » Read Now
by Andrew Feenberg. 17 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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Fifty Eastern Thinkers ("Nishida Kitaro 1870-1945" begins on p. 378) » Read Now
by Diane Collinson, Kathryn Plant, Robert Wilkinson. 426 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

Close analysis of the work of fifty major thinkers in the field of Eastern philosophy make this an excellent introduction to a fascinating area of study. The authors have drawn together thinkers from all the major Eastern philosophical traditions from the earliest times to the present day. The...
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Close analysis of the work of fifty major thinkers in the field of Eastern philosophy make this an excellent introduction to a fascinating area of study. The authors have drawn together thinkers from all the major Eastern philosophical traditions from the earliest times to the present day. The philosophers covered range from founder figures such as Zoroaster and Confucius to modern thinkers such as Fung Youlan and the present Dalai Lama. Introductions to major traditions and a glossary of key philosophical terms make this a comprehensive and accessible reference resource.
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