Zen and Philosophy : : An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarō / / Michiko Yusa.

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• VerfasserIn: Yusa, Michiko,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)

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, newly translated into English.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword A Contemplative Life -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- Prologue -- 1. Childhood: "White Sand, Green Pine Needles" (1870-1886) -- 2. Mathematics or Philosophy? (1886-1891) -- 3. The Imperial University (1891-1894) -- 4. Existential Impasse and Zen Practice (1894-1899) -- 5. Toward Kenshö: An Inner Journey (1899-1904) -- 6. The Birth of a Philosopher (1904-1907) -- 7. Pure Experience and On Religion (1908-1909) -- 8. Gakushūin in Tokyo: A Year of Transition (1909-1910) -- 9. Kyoto Imperial University: Early Years (1910-1912) -- 10. Consolidation of the Philosophy Department (1913-1917) -- 11. Correspondence with Tanabe Hajime (1913-1917) -- 12. The Calm before the Storm (1917-1919) -- 13. Sorrows of Life and Philosophy (1919-1922) -- 14. The Nishida-Einstein Connection (1920-1922) -- 15. An Inner Struggle and a Breakthrough (1923-1925) -- 16. The Logic of the Topos (1924-1926) -- 17. Retirement (1926-1929) -- 18. Formation of the Kyoto School of Philosophy (1929-1932) -- 19. Remarriage and Nishida's View of Women (1927-1931) -- 20. Development of Personalist Dialectics (1932-1934) -- 21. Education and Scholarship under Fascism (1935-1937) -- 22. Dark Political Undercurrent (1936-1937) -- 23. The Dialectical World as the Absolutely Contradictory Self-Identity (1938-1940) -- 24. History, State, and the Individual (1940-1941) -- 25. Finale (1942-1945) -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary of Names and Terms -- Bibliography -- Index