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Zen & philosophy : an intellectual biography of Nishida Kitarō /

This is the definitive work on the first and greatest of Japan's twentieth-century philosophers, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945). Interspersed throughout the narrative of Nishida's life and thought is a generous selection of the philosopher's own essays, letters, and short presentations, n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yusa, Michiko (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu, HI : University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Childhood: "white sand, green pine needles" (1870-1886)
  • Mathematics or philosophy? (1886-1891)
  • The Imperial University (1891-1894): the limited status program at the College of Humanities at the Imperial University around 1891-1892
  • Existential impasse and Zen practice (1894-1899)
  • Toward Kenshō: an inner journey (1899-1904): Nishida's letter to D.T. Suzuki concerning Zen practice
  • The birth of a philosopher (1904-1907): in memory of my deceased child
  • Pure experience and on religion (1908-1909)
  • Gakushūin in Tokyo: a year of transition (1909-1910): on Lafcadio hearn
  • Kyoto Imperial University: early years (1910-1912)
  • Consolidation of the philosophy department (1913-1917)
  • Correspondence with Tanabe Hajime (1913-1917)
  • The calm before the storm (1917-1919)
  • Sorrows of life and philosophy (1919-1922)
  • The Nishida-Einstein connection (1920-1922)
  • An inner struggle and a breakthrough (1923-1925)
  • The logic of the Topos (1924-1926)
  • Retirement (1926-1929): a retirement speech of a professor
  • Formation of the Kyoto School of Philosophy (1929-1932)
  • Remarriage and Nishida's view of women (1927-1931): From a letter to Watsuji Tetsurō ; Even the cat is dead
  • Development of personalist dialectics (1932-1934)
  • Education and scholarship under fascism (1935-1937): On the scholarly method: a public talk at Hibiya Park
  • Dark political undercurrent (1936-1937)
  • The dialectical world as the absolutely contradictory self-identity (1938-1940): My philosophical path
  • History, state, and the individual (1940-1941): A New Year's lecture to the emperor: on the philosophy of history
  • Finale (1942-1945): In memory of my eldest daughter, Ueda Yayoi.