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13The 1999 Meeting of the Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian StudiesBuddhist-Christian Studies 20 (1): 1-1. 2000.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Buddhist-Christian Studies 20 (2000) 237 [Access article in PDF] News and Views The 1999 Meeting of the Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies James HeisigNanzan Institute for Religion and CultureThe 18th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies was held in Kyoto from 21 to 23 August 1999. Discussions centered around three papers delivered under the general theme of "Nature, Self, and Spirituality."Wat…Read more
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Review of: Christopher S. Goto-Jones, Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School, and Co-Prosperity (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 32 (1): 178-180. 2005.
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Review of: Carlo Saviani, L’Oriente di Heidegger and Nishitani Keiji, Nichilismo e vacuità del Sé. A cura di Carlo Saviani (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 30 (1-2): 159-162. 2003.
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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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10Review of: Nagao Gadjin, Bukkyō no genryū: Indo (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 12 (4): 355-358. 1985.
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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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Redefining Defining Philosophy: An Apology for a Sourcebook in Japanese PhilosophyIn Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy: Japanese Philosophy Abroad, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 340-354. 2004.
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52Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 6: Confluences and Cross-Currents (edited book)Nanzan. 2009.The list of publications having to do with Japanese intellectual history in general and Kyoto School philosophy in particular has grown steadily over the past years, both inside and outside of Japan. This is due in no small part to the important contributions made by those whose papers are included in this volume, the proceedings of an international conference held in June 2009 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Although much remains to be done if Japanese philosophy is to shed its es…Read more
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21Tanabe Hajime and the Hint of A Dharmic FinalityComprendre 13 (2): 55-69. 2011.The Japanese philosopher, Tanabe Hajime is taken up as an example of a thinker who, like the conference question, straddles intellectual histories East and West. Of all the Kyoto School philosophers, it was he who took history most seriously. He not only criticized Kantian, Hegelian, and Marxist notions of teleology and the modern scientific myth of "progress" on their own ground, but went on to counter these views of history with a logic of emptiness grounded in Buddhist philosophy. The essay c…Read more
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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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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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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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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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32Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian StudiesBuddhist-Christian Studies 24 (1): 235-235. 2004.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian StudiesJames W. HeisigThe Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies held its twenty-second annual conference this year, organized around the theme "Body, Place, and East-West Exchange." The meetings were held at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 22-24 July 2003, with main presentations by Honda Masaaki ("From Body to Place"), Kawanami Akira ("The Body and the Pure Land"), and Hanao…Read more
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41Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy: Japanese Philosophy Abroad (edited book)Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture. 2004.The twelfth bi-annual symposium of the Nanzan Institute took up the problem of the philosophical tradition of Japan and how it has fared abroad. There were two principal foci of the meetings: the history and future prospects of the study and teaching of Japanese philosophy outside of Japan, and the preparation of a Sourcebook of Japanese Philosophy aimed at providing a solid anthology of Japanese philospohical resources from the earliest times up to the present. To address these two questions, 1…Read more
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202An Apology for Philosophical TransgressionsEuropean Journal of Japanese Philosophy 2 43-67. 2017.The essay that follows is, in substance, a lecture delivered in Brussels on 7 December 2016 to the 2nd International Conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy. In it I argue that the strategy of qualifying nothingness as an “absolute,” which was adopted by Kyoto School thinkers as a way to come to grips with fundamental problems of Western philosophy, is inherently ambiguous and ultimately weakens the notion of nothingness itself. In its place, a proposal is made to define nothin…Read more
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44The author takes a quick look back at his philosophical education and academic interests through the lens of »comparative philosophy« and uncovers a progression of cross-cultural and cross-historical patterns at work, many of them unfolding tacitly beneath the surface. He concludes with a brief listing of five such patterns, culminating in an appeal for a recovery of unified world views shaped within particular traditions but set against the universal backdrop of a common care for the earth.
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37Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 3: Origins and Possibilities (edited book)Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture. 2008.he fourteen essays gathered together in this, the third volume of Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy, represent one more step in ongoing efforts to bring the concerns of twentieth-century Japanese philosophy into closer contact with philosophical traditions around the world. As its title indicates, the aims are twofold: to reflect critically on the work of leading figures in the modern academic philosophy of Japan and to straddle the borderlands where they touch on the work of their counterparts i…Read more
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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.
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Nishitani Keiji and the Overcoming of Modernity (1940–1945)In Raquel Bouso & James W. Heisig (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 6: Confluences and Cross-Currents, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 297-329. 2009.
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19Japan 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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37Rude 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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19In 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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