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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454018503321

Autore

Wilkinson Robert <1948->

Titolo

Nishida and Western philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / Robert Wilkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2009

ISBN

1-317-08722-4

1-317-08721-6

1-282-24327-6

9786612243271

0-7546-9325-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

181.043927

181/.12

Soggetti

Philosophy, Japanese

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preliminary Notes; Introduction; 1 Nishida's Starting Point; 2 Radical Empiricism and Pure Experience; 3 Fichte, the Neo-Kantians and Bergson; 4 Nishida's Later Philosophy: The Logic of Place and Self-Contradictory Identity; Summary and Conclusions; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945) is the most important Japanese philosopher of the last century. His constant aim in philosophy was to try to articulate Zen in terms drawn from Western philosophical sources, yet in the end, he found that he could not do so, and his thought illustrates a conceptual incommensurability at the deepest level between the main line of the Western tradition and one of the main lines in Eastern thought. This book is a work of comparative philosophy, attention is given to the consequences of Nishida's metaphysics in the areas of ethics, aesthetics, the philosophy of religion