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11Nishida Kitaro (edited book)University of California Press. 1991.In recent years several books by major figures in Japan's modern philosophical tradition have appeared in English, exciting readers by their explorations of the borderlands between philosophy and religion. What has been wanting, however, is a book in a Western language to elucidate the life and thought of Nishida Kitaro, Japan's first philosopher of world stature and the originator of what has come to be called the Kyoto School. No one is more qualified to write such a book than Nishitani Keiji,…Read more
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11This collection of papers focuses on Philosophy as Metanoetics, the seminal work of the celebrated Japanese philosopher Tanabe Hajime (1885-1962).
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11Review of: James M. Phillips, From the Rising of the Sun: Christians and Society in Contemporary Japan (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 10 (4): 323-329. 1983.
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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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10Review of: Nagao Gadjin, Bukkyō no genryū: Indo (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 12 (4): 355-358. 1985.
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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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9Book Review: Early Buddhism and Christianity: A comparative study of the founders' authority, the community, and the discipline by Chai-Shin Yu (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 9 320-322. 1982.
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9Review of: Minoru Kiyota, Gedatsukai: Its Theory and Practice (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 9 (4): 316-318. 1982.
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8Reviews: 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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8Nothingness and Desire: A Philosophical AntiphonyUniversity of Hawaii Press. 2013.The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London University’s School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as they apply to a re-examination of the questions of self, God, morality, property, and the East-West philosophical divide. Rather than attempt to harmonize East and West philosophies into a single chorus, Heisig undertakes what he calls a “philos…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
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7Philosophy as Metanoetics (edited book)University of California Press. 1986.A milestone in Japan's post-war philosophical thought and a dramatic turning point in Tanabe's own philosophy, _Philosophy as Metanoetics_ calls for nothing less than a complete and radical rethinking of the philosophical task itself. It is a powerful, original work, showing vast erudition in all areas of both Eastern and Western thought.
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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
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7Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy Vol. 1 (edited book)Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture. 2006.Thirteen scholars gather together to discuss current issues in Japanese philosophy, critically examine its ongoing dialogue with Western philosophy, and open new questions for future research.
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5Reviews: 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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4Nothingness and desire: an East-West philosophical antiphonyUniversity of Hawaiʻi Press. 2013.The guiding fictions -- Desire and its objects -- Desire without a proper object -- Nothingness and being -- The nothingness of desire and the desire for nothingness -- Defining self through no-self -- Getting over one's self -- The mind of nothingness -- The self with its desires -- No-self with its desire -- No-self and self-transcendence -- God and death -- From God to nothingness -- God and life -- Displacing the personal God -- Towards an impersonal God -- The absolute of relatedness -- The…Read more
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2Nothingness and Desire: A Philosophical AntiphonyUniversity of Hawaii Press. 2013.The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London University’s School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as they apply to a re-examination of the questions of self, God, morality, property, and the East-West philosophical divide. Rather than attempt to harmonize East and West philosophies into a single chorus, Heisig undertakes what he calls a “philos…Read more
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1The cultural disarmament of philosophyUniversitas Philosophica 25 (50): 17-40. 2008.This article protests against the claim that philosophy as such is universal, because it often ambiguously speaks more of a universality of cultural dominance than of a properly philosophical universality including other philosophical modes of language and thought in the commitment to a universal search for truth. It stresses the need of a deliberate decision to de- Westernizing the philosophical forum, and illustrates how the Kyoto School does seriously take up this challenge facing, among othe…Read more
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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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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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Editors''' IntroductionIn Heisig James W. & Uehara Mayuko (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy: Origins and Possibilities, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 1-8. 2008.
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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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Predgovor bosanskom prijevoduIn Kahteran Nevad & W. Heisig James (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 5: Nove Granice Japanske Filozofije, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. 2009.
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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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Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy: Origins and Possibilities (edited book)Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture. 2008.
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Editors' IntroductionIn Raquel Bouso & James W. Heisig (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 6: Confluences and Cross-Currents, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. 2009.
Cambridge University
PhD, 1973
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Philosophical Traditions |
Philosophy, Misc |
Other Academic Areas |
Religious Studies |
Psychology |