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Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy: Origins and Possibilities (edited book)Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture. 2009.
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16Origins and Possibilities (edited book)Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture. 2008.The 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 …Read more
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25Japanese 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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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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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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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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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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Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy: Neglected Themes and Hidden Variations (edited book)Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture. 2008.
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Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy: Origins and Possibilities (edited book)Nanzan Institute for Religion & Culture. 2008.
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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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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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20The 2004 Meeting of the Japan Society for Buddhist-Christian StudiesBuddhist-Christian Studies 25 (1): 153-153. 2005.
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Review of: Marcello Ghilardi, na logica del vedere. Estetica ed etica nel pensiero di Nishida Kitarō (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 37 (1): 175-178. 2010.
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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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22The Heart of Buddhism: In Search of the Timeless Spirit of Primitive BuddhismPhilosophy East and West 35 (2): 221-223. 1985.
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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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14Review of: Ueda Shizuteru, Nishida Kitarō: Ningen no shōgai to iu koto; Keiken to jikaku: Nishida Tetsugaku no “basho” o motomete (review)Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 24 (1-2): 197-202. 1997.
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66Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School, and the Question of NationalismPhilosophy East and West 47 (3): 439. 1997.
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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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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.
Cambridge University
PhD, 1973
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Philosophy, Misc |
Other Academic Areas |
Religious Studies |
Psychology |