Zen and Philosophy : : An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarō /

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

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

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