Nishida Kitarō's chiasmatic chorology : place of dialectic, dialectic of place

Nishida Kitarō's chiasmatic chorology : place of dialectic, dialectic of place /

Nishida Kitar (1870-1945) is considered Japan's first and greatest modern philosopher. As founder of the Kyoto School, he began a rigorous philosophical engagement and dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, especially the work of G.W.F. Hegel. John W.M. Krummel explores the Buddhist ro...

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Main Author: Krummel, John W. M. (John Wesley Megumu), 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2015
Series:World philosophies.
Subjects:
Nishida, Kitarō, > 1870-1945.
Philosophy, Japanese > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • part I. Preliminary studies
  • 1. From Aristotle's substance to Hegel's concrete universal : the development of Nishida's dialectic
  • 2. Hegelian dialectics and Mahāyāna non-dualism
  • part II. Dialectics in Nishida
  • 3. Pure experience, self-awareness, and will : dialectics in the early works (from the 1910s to the 1920s)
  • 4. Dialectics in the epistemology of place (from the late 1920s to the early 1930s)
  • 5. The dialectic of the world-matrix involving acting persons (from the 1930s to the 1940s)
  • 6. The dialectic of the world-matrix involving the dialectical universal and contradictory identity (from the 1930s to the 1940s)
  • 7. The dialectic of religiosity (the 1940s)
  • part III. Conclusions
  • 8. Nishida and Hegel
  • 9. Nishida, Buddhism, and religion
  • 10. The chiasma and the chōra
  • 11. Concluding thoughts, criticism, and evaluation.

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