Description
Book SynopsisDialogues between two important philosophical traditions
Trade ReviewMy overall assessment of this volume is that it is a strong and valuable source for specialists in the Kyoto School, as well as for nonspecialists within the Continental tradition who are curious about this movement. Vol. 2 2014
* Journal of Japanese Philosophy *
This book, carefully edited and produced, is a welcome addition to the field of intercultural philosophy, and is recommended for all students of philosophy, language, religious studies, intellectual history, communication theory, comparative literature, and global studies.
* Journal of Asian Studies *
The present volume considerably advances East-West dialogue and the reputation of the Kyoto School. . . . Recommended.
* Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Abbreviations of Works by the Kyoto School
Introduction: Conversations on an Ox Path
Part 1. The Kyoto School and Dialogue
1. Contributions to Dialogue with the Kyoto School / Ueda Shizuteru
2. Dialogue and Appropriation: The Kyoto School as Cross-Cultural Philosophy / Bret W. Davis
3. Tanabe Hajime's Logic of Species and the Philosophy of Nishida Kitaro: A Critical Dialogue within the Kyoto School / Sugimoto Koichi
Part 2. Self and World
4. Philosophy as Auto-Bio-Graphy: The Example of the Kyoto School / Ohashi Ryōsuke
5. Nishitani after Nietzsche: From the Death of God to the Great Death of the Will / Bret W. Davis
6. Empty Soul, Empty World: Nietzsche and Nishitani / David Jones
7. Ueda Shizuteru's Phenomenology of Self and World: Critical Dialogues with Descartes, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty / Steffen Döll
Part 3. God and Nothingness
8. Nothing Gives: Marion and Nishida on Gift-giving and God / John C. Maraldo
9. Language Games, Selflessness, and the Death of God: A/Theology in Contemporary Zen Philosophy and Deconstruction / Gereon Kopf
10. Buddha and God: Nishida's Contributions to a New Apocalyptic Theology / Thomas J. J. Altizer
Part 4. Ethics and Politics
11. Other-Power and Absolute Passivity in Tanabe and Levinas / Brian Schroeder
12. Beyond the Binary: Watsuji Testuro and Luce Irigaray on Body, Self, and Ethics / Erin McCarthy
13. Overcoming Modernity: A Critical Response to the Kyoto School / Bernard Stevens
14. Heidegger and Japanese Fascism: An Unsubstantiated Connection / Graham Parkes
Part 5. Grammar, Art, and Imagination
15. The Middle Voice of Emptiness: Nishida and Nishitani / Rolf Elberfeld
16. Truly Nothing: The Kyoto School and Art / Jason M. Wirth
17. Logos and Pathos: Miki Kiyoshi's Logic of the Imagination / Fujita Masakatsu
List of Contributors
Index
