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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 James W. Heisig & Rein Raud (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy: Japanese Philosophy Abroad, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. 2010.
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Nishida’s Deodorized Basho and the Scent of Zeami’s FlowerIn James W. Heisig & Rein Raud (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy: Japanese Philosophy Abroad, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 247-273. 2010.
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152Japanese 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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24An 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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Philosophical Traditions |
Philosophy, Misc |
Other Academic Areas |
Religious Studies |
Psychology |