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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968253003321

Autore

Krummel John W. M (John Wesley Megumu), <1965->

Titolo

Nishida Kitar's Chiasmatic Chorology : Place of Dialectic, Dialectic of Place / / John W.M. Krummel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana, : Indiana University Press, [2015]

ISBN

9780253017864

0253017866

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Collana

World philosophies

Disciplina

181/.12

Soggetti

Philosophy, Japanese - 20th century

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 (pages 269-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- part I. Preliminary studies -- 1. From Aristotle's substance to Hegel's concrete universal : the development of Nishida's dialectic -- 2. Hegelian dialectics and Mahāyāna non-dualism -- part II. Dialectics in Nishida -- 3. Pure experience, self-awareness, and will : dialectics in the early works (from the 1910s to the 1920s) -- 4. Dialectics in the epistemology of place (from the late 1920s to the early 1930s) -- 5. The dialectic of the world-matrix involving acting persons (from the 1930s to the 1940s) -- 6. The dialectic of the world-matrix involving the dialectical universal and contradictory identity (from the 1930s to the 1940s) -- 7. The dialectic of religiosity (the 1940s) -- part III. Conclusions -- 8. Nishida and Hegel -- 9. Nishida, Buddhism, and religion -- 10. The chiasma and the chōra -- 11. Concluding thoughts, criticism, and evaluation.

Sommario/riassunto

Nishida Kitar (1870-1945) is considered Japan's first and greatest modern philosopher. As founder of the Kyoto School, he began a rigorous philosophical engagement and dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, especially the work of G. W. F. Hegel. John W. M. Krummel explores the Buddhist roots of Nishida's thought and places him in connection with Hegel and other philosophers of the Continental tradition. Krummel develops notions of self-awareness, will, being, place, the environment, religion, and politics in Nishida's thought and shows how his ethics of humility may best serve us in our



complex world.