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20Book Review: Steffen Döll, Wozu also suchen? Zur Einführung in das Denken von Ueda Shizuteru (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 33 (1): 208-211. 2006.
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61East Asian Philosophy and the Case against Perfect TranslationsComparative and Continental Philosophy 2 (1): 81-90. 2010.In this essay the author argues for rethinking the canons of translation of East Asian philosophical texts in order to draw Western philosophers more deeply into conversation with them
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38Rude awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto school, & the question of nationalism (edited book)University of Hawai'i Press. 1995.Zen Buddhist Attitudes to War HIRATA Seiko IN ORDER FULLY TO UNDERSTAND the standpoint of Zen on the question of nationalism, one must first consider the ...
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78Non-I and thou: Nishida, Buber, and the moral consequences of self-actualizationPhilosophy East and West 50 (2): 179-207. 2000.Ten years after Buber published his "I and Thou," the Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitarō published a book of the same title, knowing only Buber's name but nothing of his ideas. A comparison of these two works suggests certain fundamental differences between philosophies of being and philosophies of nothingness regarding the nature of human relationships. In particular, it points to the inherent tendency of the latter to remove moral responsibility and social consciousness to high but ineffectiv…Read more
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21In Memoriam: Jan Van Bragt (1928–2007)Buddhist-Christian Studies 28 141-144. 2008.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:In Memoriam: Jan Van Bragt (1928–2007)James W. HeisigEarly on the morning of Easter Thursday, April 12, 2007, Jan Van Bragt passed away quietly at the age of seventy-eight.1 During the previous year his health had begun to deteriorate, until in the final days of 2006 he was obliged to leave Kyoto and take up residence with his religious congregation in Himeji. On February 21, he was hospitalized with lung cancer and was operated on s…Read more
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10Book Review: Robert Wilkinson, Nishida and Western Philosophy (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 37 (1): 178-182. 2010.
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61Much Ado About Nothingness: Essays on Nishida and TanabeChisokudo Publications. 2015.Much Ado About Nothingness brings together 14 essays on Nishida Kitaro and Tanabe Hajime by one of the leading scholars of twentieth-century Japanese philosophy. With Nishidaâs âlogic of placeâ and Tanabeâs âlogic of the specificâ providing a continuity to the whole, the author writes from a conviction that âthe overriding challenge for those doing philosophy in the key of the Kyoto School, with their sights set squarely on self-awareness like Nishida and Tanabe before them, is to …Read more
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Editors' IntroductionIn W. Heisig James & Raud Rein (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 7: Classical Japanese Philosophy, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. 2010.
Cambridge University
PhD, 1973
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Areas of Interest
Philosophical Traditions |
Philosophy, Misc |
Other Academic Areas |
Religious Studies |
Psychology |