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Review of: Scott W. Sunquist, ed., A Dictionary of Asian Christianity (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 29 (1-2): 184-186. 2002.
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9Reviews: L'Oriente di Heidegger, Nichilismo e vacuità del Sé. A cura di Carlo Saviani (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 30 159-162. 2003.
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10Reviews: Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School, and Co-Prosperity (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 32 178-180. 2005.
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Review of: David Williams, Defending Japan's Pacific War: The Kyoto School Philosophers and Post-White Power (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 32 (1): 163-166. 2005.
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14Reviews: Defending Japan's Pacific War: The Kyoto School Philosophers and Post-White Power (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 32 163-166. 2005.
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20The Religious Philosophy of the Kyoto School: An OverviewJapanese Journal of Religious Studies 17 (1): 51-81. 1990.
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Review of: Robert E. Carter, Encounter with Enlightenment: A Study of Japanese Ethics (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 30 (1-2): 157-159. 2003.
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11Review of: Chai-Shin Yu, Early Buddhism and Christianity: A Comparative Study of the Founders’ Authority, the Community, and the Discipline (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 9 (4): 320-322. 1982.
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24The 2004 Meeting of the Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian StudiesBuddhist-Christian Studies 25 (1): 153-153. 2005.
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Editors' IntroductionIn James W. Heisig Raquel Bouso & James W. Heisig (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 6: Confluences and Cross-Currents, Nanzan. 2009.
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Nishitani Keiji and the Overcoming of Modernity (1940–1945)In James W. Heisig Raquel Bouso & James W. Heisig (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 6: Confluences and Cross-Currents, Nanzan. pp. 297-329. 2009.
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22Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian StudiesBuddhist-Christian Studies 23 (1): 139-139. 2003.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Buddhist-Christian Studies 23 (2003) 139 [Access article in PDF] Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies James W. Heisig Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture The twenty-first annual meeting of the Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies was held from July 24 to 26, 2002 at the Palace Side Hotel in Kyoto. The theme for the year was "The Body and Religion."Yoritomi Motohiro delivered a paper on "The Shingon View of the B…Read more
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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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60East 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.
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Nishida’s Deodorized Basho and the Scent of Zeami’s FlowerIn W. Heisig James & Raud Rein (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 7: Classical Japanese Philosophy, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 247-273. 2010.
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159Japanese Philosophy: A SourcebookUniversity of Hawaiʻi Press. 2011.This is a set of essays and translations that covers comprehensively all of Japanese philosophy.
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13Filosofi Del NullaChisokudo Publications. 2007.Traduzione italiana a cura di Enrico Fongaro, Carlo Saviani e Tiziano Tosolini. Il volume presenta il pensiero delle tre principali figure della cosiddetta âscuola di Kyotoâ, Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe Hajime e Nishitani Keiji, mostrando come questa originale corrente del pensiero giapponese del Novecento costituisca per la filosofia tradizionale una sfida ad oltrepassare i suoi confini occidentali.
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25An Inquiry into the Good and Nishida’s Missing BashoComparative and Continental Philosophy 4 (2). 2012.In December 2010 Kyoto University hosted a symposium honoring the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Nishida Kitarō’s An Inquiry into the Good. The following is an English version of a talk delivered on that occasion. In it I have tried to argue against the widely held view that this maiden work contains the germ of Nishida’s mature philosophy, and at the same time to suggest that an early strain of ambiguity regarding the notion of the will points to a neglect of the natural world in h…Read more
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7Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto SchoolUniversity of Hawaii Press. 2001.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 consis…Read more
Cambridge University
PhD, 1973
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