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11The Legacy of Ueda Shizuteru: A Zen Life of Dialogue in a Twofold WorldComparative and Continental Philosophy 14 (2): 112-127. 2022.Ueda Shizuteru 上田閑照 (1926–2019) led a double life. And he taught us how we, too, can lead double lives. Or rather, he explained how we are already in fact doing so. It’s just that we don’t realize...
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10Heidegger on the Way from Onto-Historical Ethnocentrism to East-West DialogueGatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 6 130-156. 2016.Heidegger often asserted that Germany, as “the land of poets and thinkers,” has a central world-historical role to play in any possible recovery from the technological nihilism of the modern epoch. And yet, on numerous occasions, Heidegger also demonstrated a serious interest in dialogue with the East Asian traditions of Daoism and Zen Buddhism. How are Heidegger’s entrenched ethnocentrism and his interest in East-West dialogue related? While neither can be wholly confined to one or another peri…Read more
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9Forms of Emptiness in ZenIn Steven M. Emmanuel (ed.), A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy, Wiley. 2013.This chapter examines the six forms that the teaching of emptiness takes in Zen. Before doing this, the chapter comments briefly on Zen's relation to the doctrinal sources upon which it critically and creatively draws. The Zen tradition understands itself to be based on Śākyamuni Buddha's profoundest teaching of Mahāyāna Buddhism, which has been passed down not through texts and doctrines but by way of face‐to‐face acknowledgment of awakening. The six rubrics which the notion of emptiness is use…Read more
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7Martin Heidegger: Key ConceptsRoutledge. 2009.Heidegger's writings are among the most formidable in recent philosophy. The pivotal concepts of his thought are for many the source of both fascination and frustration. Yet any student of philosophy needs to become acquainted with Heidegger's thought. "Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts" is designed to facilitate this. Each chapter introduces and explains a key Heideggerian concept, or a cluster of closely related concepts. Together, the chapters cover the full range of Heidegger's thought in its e…Read more
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6Martin Heidegger: Key ConceptsRoutledge. 2010.Heidegger's writings are among the most formidable in the philosophy. The pivotal concepts of his thought are for many the source of both fascination and frustration. This title includes chapters that introduce and explain a key Heideggerian concept, or a cluster of closely related concepts.
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3Reply to Graham Parkes: Nietzsche as Zebra: With both Egoistic Antibuddha and Nonegoistic Bodhisattva StripesJournal of Nietzsche Studies 46 (1): 62-81. 2015.
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2Das Innerste zuäußerst: Nishida und die Revolution der Ich-Du-BeziehungAllgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie 36 (3): 281-312. 2011.Nishida Kitarō developed a revolutionary account of the I-Thou relation, according to which the true self, in its deepest recesses, is turned inside out so as to be radically open to alterity. He thus offers an original and significant contribution to a countercurrent to the tendency toward solipsistic subjectivity in the history of modern Western philosophy. With his watershed essay ›I and Thou‹ he deserves to be recognized as key figure in the revolutionary movement toward an appreciation of a…Read more
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Provokativna podvojenost u japanskoj filozofiji religije: s fokusom na Nishidi i zenuIn Kahteran Nevad & W. Heisig James (eds.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy 5: Nove Granice Japanske Filozofije, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 116-145. 2009.
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Letting Go of God for Nothing: Ueda Shizuteru’s Non-Mysticism and the Question of Ethics in Zen BuddhismIn Davis Bret W. (ed.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy: Neglected Themes and Hidden Variations, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 201-220. 2008.
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Heidegger and asian philosophyIn Francois Raffoul & Eric S. Nelson (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 459. 2013.
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On the Way to Gelassenheit: The Problem of the Will and the Possibility of Non-Willing in Heidegger's ThoughtDissertation, Vanderbilt University. 2001.This dissertation shows how the problem of the will is at the very heart of Heidegger's thought---not only explicitly in his post-turn critique of the technological "will to will" and in his intimations of Nicht-Wollen or Gelassenheit---but in the twistings and turnings of the development of his thought-path as a whole. ;In Chapter 1, in the course of laying out the interpretive terms of the investigation, I also begin with a consideration of the "debate" between the two great 19th century philo…Read more
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Trans-mysticism: Ueda Shizuteru on Zen after Meister EckhartIn Gregory S. Moss & Takeshi Morisato (eds.), The dialectics of absolute nothingness: the legacies of German philosophy in the Kyoto school, Cornell University Press. 2025.
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Conversing in emptiness: rethinking cross-cultural dialogue with the Kyoto schoolIn Anthony O'Hear (ed.), Philosophical Traditions, Cambridge University Press. 2014.
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Toward a World of Worlds: Nishida, The Kyoto School, and the Place of Cross-Cultural DialogueIn W. Heisig James (ed.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy Vol.1, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 184-204. 2006.
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Provocative Ambivalences in Japanese Philosophy of Religion: With a Focus on Nishida and ZenIn James W. Heisig (ed.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy: Japanese Philosophy Abroad, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 306-339. 2004.