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176Disimagination and Sentiment in Nishitani's Religious AestheticsEuropean Journal of Japanese Philosophy 4. 2019.This paper discusses the notion of disimagination a translation of the German word Entbildung, which was devised by Meister Eckhart as a reinterpretation of the Neoplatonic categories of abstraction (aphairesis) and negation (apophasis) in connection with Nishitani Keiji's standpoint of emptiness. Nishitani proposes a nonsubjective, nonrepresentational, and nonconceptual type of knowledge to avoid the problem of representation implied in the modern subjective self-consciousness that prevents our…Read more
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58Arte e pensiero in Giappone: Corpo, immagine, gesto by Marcello Ghilardi (review)Philosophy East and West 64 (1): 238-240. 2014.The traditional arts may possibly constitute that aspect of Japanese culture that has the most literature dedicated to it, and the new book by the Italian scholar Marcello Ghilardi, Arte e pensiero in Giappone: Corpo, immagine, gesto, should have a deservedly high place among the works in this genre.
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35Una forma de escepticismo terapéutico: Nishitani, lector de HakuinConvivium: revista de filosofía 26 165-184. 2013.El maestro zen Hakuin Ekaku enseñaba a sus seguidores que para lograr la liberación del sufrimiento debían poner en tela de juicio su propia capacidad de comprensión y al mismo tiempo dotarse de una gran confianza en la posibilidad del despertar a la verdad que persigue el budismo. Su método consistía en practicar una serie de kōan, una técnica meditativa basada en la resolución de unos casos aparentemente paradójicos o ilógicos, hasta que el practicante llegara a convertirse en una «gran masa d…Read more
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31One's Other Self: Contradictory Self-Identity in Ueda's Phenomenology of the SelfIn Russell Re Manning, Sarah Flavel & Lydia Azadpour (eds.), in Differences in identity in global philosophy and religion. 2019.Concerned with the issue of the I-thou encounter and the question of how to overcome the problem of the confrontation that occurs in the worldly existence among individuals, the Japanese philosopher Ueda Shizuteru (1926-), a leading member of the Kyoto School, addressed this issue in his phenomenology of the self. Ueda develops his ideas as a hermeneutical practice in the reading of the well-known Zen classic parable Ten Ox-Herding pictures, given that Zen Buddhism is the main tradition upon whi…Read more
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30Tetsugaku Companion to Ueda Shizuteru: Language, Experience, and Zen (edited book)Springer. 2022.This book presents the first collection of essays on the philosophy of Ueda Shizuteru in a Western language. Ueda, the last living member of the Kyoto school, has fostered the East-West dialogue in all his works and has helped to open up the Western image of philosophy by engaging the Zen tradition. The book reflects this particular trait of Ueda’s philosophy, but it also covers all thematic fields of his writings. Contributions from both young and established scholars and experts from Japan, Eu…Read more
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22La articulación de la realidad. Aproximación al lenguaje religioso desde el pensamiento japonésIdeas Y Valores 65 (S2): 17-29. 2016.On the basis of Lluís Duch’s idea that there is no specifically religious language, the article examines the kōan, a form of dialogue typical of Zen Buddhism used as a meditation technique and compiled in several written collections. Using the interpretations of the kōan carried out by some contemporary Japanese philosophers, the paper reflects on the expressive resources developed by Zen literature in order to account for the tension between the ineffability of the experience of an ultimate rea…Read more
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19Disclosing Our Being-with-Others-in-the-Fūdo: A Review of Watsuji on Nature. Japanese Philosophy in the Wake of Heidegger (review)Journal of World Philosophies 5 (2): 183-188. 2020.David Johnson’s book introduces the enormous explanatory potential of Watsuji’s view of nature and one of his most original conceptual creations, fūdo, into the current philosophical discussion. Within the framework of phenomenology and hermeneutics, Johnson brings the idea that nature is part of the very structure of human existence into the limelight. In contrast to the value-free world of nature described by science, at least in a conventional and positivist sense, Watsuji’s nature is a meani…Read more
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18Action et contemplation : Sur une lecture eckhartienne de Shizuteru UedaTheologiques 20 (1-2): 313-339. 2012.In 1923 Rudolf Otto gathered a number of appendices in Das Heilige (1917) in one of which he connected Zen Buddhism and the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart. The common denominator was life, as it lives without reason, lives because it lives, likewise the righteous man works for the sake of working and only then is genuinely free. When, in 1965 Shizuteru Ueda published his doctoral dissertation on Eckhart, he included a comparison with Zen returning to that topic. In light of the dichotomy…Read more
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17Thinking Landscape in the Light of Tsujimura Kōichi’s Notion of the CircumspectiveJournal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 7 (2): 91-112. 2020.This paper looks into Tsujimura Kōichi’s notion of the “circumspective,” which not only indicates a type of composition in traditional Chinese landscape painting but also a way of seeing and relati...
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16Disimagination and Sentiment in Nishitani’s Religious AestheticsEuropean Journal of Japanese Philosophy 4 45-84. 2019.This paper discusses the notion of disimagination a translation of the German word Entbildung, which was devised by Meister Eckhart as a reinterpretation of the Neoplatonic categories of abstraction (aphairesis) and negation (apophasis)in connection with Nishitani Keiji's standpoint of emptiness. Nishitani proposes a nonsubjective, nonrepresentational, and nonconceptual type of knowledge to avoid the problem of representation implied in the modern subjective self-consciousness that prevents our …Read more
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15Penser le temps dans la philosophie japonaiseL’Enseignement Philosophique 72 (3): 11-22. 2022.Dans la philosophie japonaise, le temps, traditionnellement, n’a jamais été pensé comme séparé de l’espace. Plutôt que de concevoir l’espace-temps de manière abstraite, elle a toujours eu tendance à penser l’expérience d’une temporalité indissociable de la spatialité, une « temporalité spatiale ». À partir de deux créations conceptuelles japonaises, l’une médiévale et l’autre contemporaine, l’une ontologico-existentielle et l’autre esthétique, uji et kire respectivement, nous explorerons deux fa…Read more
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15Arakawa and Gins's Nonplace: An Approach from an Apophatic AestheticsJournal of Japanese Philosophy 2 (1): 72-102. 2014.With the expression apophatic aesthetics, Amador Vega names different cases of twentieth-century hermeneutics of negativity that show a spiritual debt to negative theology and in particular to the major mystical trends of Medieval Europe. Our aim here is to explore how this category applies to the artistic work created by the contemporary artists Arakawa and Gins. However, our focus is not on the debt of these artists to apophatism in the Christian tradition but in Buddhism, especially in Zen. T…Read more
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14The Hermeneutics of Experience: Schleiermacher and Nishitani on the Essence of ReligionPhilosophy East and West 70 (2): 265-284. 2020.Abe Masao 阿部正雄 is accepted by many as a member of the Kyoto School of philosophy, known primarily for its role in drawing together distinct traditions of Western and Asian thought.1 Abe was a key figure in this respect, dedicating much of his career to dialogue with Western philosophers and theologians.2 Through his many essays, translations, lectures, and conversations, Abe brought Zen Buddhism to audiences in Europe and the United States. In particular, he introduced his own interpretation of …Read more
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10Mirar a través, ver claramente. Reconsiderando la perspectiva renacentista desde la filosofía japonesaStudi di Estetica 46 (4): 69-89. 2018.Our starting point is a remark made by an art historian, Charles Carman, to the theorist of art Norman Bryson regarding his interpretation of the Japanese philosopher Nishitani Keiji's standpoint of emptiness. Bryson claims that Nishitani's standpoint supports his contrast between Western and non-Western gaze. On the contrary, Carman sees Nishitani's standpoint closer to the Renaissance theory of vision as found in Alberti and Nicholas von Cues and so not as opposite to Western tradition as a wh…Read more
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8Estética y religión. El discurso del cuerpo y los sentidos (edited book)Er, Revista de Filosofía. Documentos. 1998.
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1The Blue Flower in the Mirror of True Emptiness: An Approach to Nishida’s Active FeelingIn Kido Atsushi, Noe Keiichi & Lam Wing Keung (eds.), Tetsugaku Companion to Feeling, Springer Verlag. pp. 19-37. 2024.Arguably, emotions figure prominently in contemporary philosophy, not only in the fields of aesthetics and philosophy of religion, but also in the study of morality and cognition. Expressions like “emotional intelligence” are now commonly used and there is even talk of an affective turn in the cognitive sciences. Twentieth-century philosophers paved the way with conceptual creations like “poietic thinking” (dichtende Denken), “sentient intelligence” (inteligencia sentiente) or “poetic reason” (r…Read more
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1De geido a geijutsu. O caminho da arte e a arte como caminho na Escola de KiotoModernos and Contemporaneos 3 (2): 2-12. 2018.A palavra japonesa geidō 芸道 é formada por dois caracteres: o primeiro remete à “habilidade” ou “capacidade” de executar algo e o segundo a uma “via” ou “caminho”, de maneira que poderia ser traduzida por “via da arte”. Como observou Hisamatsu Shin’ichi em um diálogo com Martin Heidegger, “via”, aqui, não significa simplesmente “método”, mas mantém uma profunda relação com a vida. No entanto, para nomear a “arte” no sentido moderno “ocidental estético”,emprega-se, em japonês, o neologismo geijuts…Read more
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Življenje brez zakaj: Nishitanijev odgovor na nihilizemIn Maja Milcinski & Ana Bajželj Bevelacqua (eds.), Življenje, smrt in umiranje v medkulturni perspektivi. pp. 51-63. 2011.
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De l'égocentrisme à l'interdépendance. Nishitani sur le Karma, le Samadhi, et la NatureIn Marie-Hélène Parizeau & Jacynthe Tremblay (eds.), Milieux modernes et reflets japonais. Chemins philosophiques, . 2015.
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La filosofía japonesa en EspañaIn James W. Heisig (ed.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy: Japanese Philosophy Abroad, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 121-139. 2004.
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Thinking through Translation : Nishitani and Ueda on Words, Concepts, and ImagesIn Raquel Bouso (ed.), Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy: Philosopher la traduction / Philosophizing Translation, Chisokudo Publications. pp. 88-118. 2017.
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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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In James W. Heisig (ed.), Japanese Philosophy Abroad, Nanzan Institute For Religion & Culture. pp. 121-139. 2004.