An Inquiry into the Good represented the foundation of Nishida’s philosophy―reflecting both his deep study of Zen Buddhism and his thorough analysis of Western philosophy―and established its author as the foremost Japanese philosopher of this century. In this important new translation, two scholars―one Japanese and one American―have worked together to present a lucid and accurate rendition of Nishida’s ideas. "The translators do an admirable job of adhering to the cadence of the original while avoiding unidiomatic, verbatim constructions."―John C. Maraldo, Philosophy East and West"More accurate and critical than the first translation into English of Nishida's earliest book. . . . An important addition to library collections of twentieth-century philosophy, Japanese intellectual history, and contemporary Buddhist thought."―Choice  "A welcome new translation of a work by probably the most original and influential of modern Japanese philosophers."―Hidé Ishiguro, Times Literary Supplement  "Undoubtedly the most important work for anyone in the West interested in understanding modern Japanese thought. This work premiered Japanese philosophy as modern but has also shown unusual staying power. In the late twentieth century Japanese thinkers, both religious and secular, insist on its importance and relevance."―William R. La Fleur, University of Pennsylvania

An Inquiry into the Good

Abe, Masao

Nishida, kitarò

Ives, Christopher

Yale University Press

An Inquiry into the Good represented the foundation of Nishida’s philosophy―reflecting both his deep study of Zen Buddhism and his thorough analysis of Western philosophy―and established its author as the foremost Japanese philosopher of this century. In this important new translation, two scholars―one Japanese and one American―have worked together to present a lucid and accurate rendition of Nishida’s ideas. "The translators do an admirable job of adhering to the cadence of the original while avoiding unidiomatic, verbatim constructions."―John C. Maraldo, Philosophy East and West"More accurate and critical than the first translation into English of Nishida's earliest book. . . . An important addition to library collections of twentieth-century philosophy, Japanese intellectual history, and contemporary Buddhist thought."―Choice "A welcome new translation of a work by probably the most original and influential of modern Japanese philosophers."―Hidé Ishiguro, Times Literary Supplement "Undoubtedly the most important work for anyone in the West interested in understanding modern Japanese thought. This work premiered Japanese philosophy as modern but has also shown unusual staying power. In the late twentieth century Japanese thinkers, both religious and secular, insist on its importance and relevance."―William R. La Fleur, University of Pennsylvania

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Ontology of Production: Three Essays (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

Ontology of Production presents three essays by the influential Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945), translated for the first time into English by William Haver. While previous translations of his writings have framed Nishida within Asian or Oriental philosophical traditions, Haver's introduction and approach to the texts rightly situate the work within Nishida's own commitment to Western philosophy. In particular, Haver focuses on Nishida's sustained and rigorous engagement with Marx's conception of production. Agreeing with Marx that ontology is production and production is ontology, Nishida in these three essays—"Expressive Activity" (1925), "The Standpoint of Active Intuition" (1935), and "Human Being" (1938)—addresses sense and reason, language and thought, intuition and appropriation, ultimately arguing that in this concept of production, ideality and materiality are neither mutually exclusive nor oppositional but, rather, coimmanent. Nishida's forceful articulation of the radical nature of Marx's theory of production is, Haver contends, particularly timely in today's speculation-driven global economy. Nishida's reading of Marx, which points to the inseparability of immaterial intellectual labor and material manual labor, provokes a reconsideration of Marxism's utility for making sense of—and resisting—the logic of contemporary capitalism.

Duke University Press Books

Nishida Kitarô, Japan's premier modern philosopher, was born in 1870 and grew to intellectual maturity in the final decades of the Meiji period (1868–1912). He achieved recognition as Japan's leading establishment philosopher during his tenure as professor of philosophy at Kyoto University. After his retirement in 1927, and until his death in 1945, Nishida published a continuous stream of original essays that can best be described as intercivilizational, a meeting point of East and West. His final essay, "The Logic of the Place of Nothingness and the Religious Worldview," completed in the last few months before his death, is a summation of his philosophy of religion and has come to be regarded as the foundational text of the Kyoto school. It is one of the few places in his writings where Nishida draws openly and freely on East Asian Buddhist sources as analogs of his own ideas. Here Nishida argues for the existential primordiality of the religious consciousness against Kant, while also critically engaging the thought of such authors as Aristotle, the Christian Neo-Platonists, Spinoza, Fichte, Hegel, Barth, and Tillich. He makes it clear that he is also indebted to Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Dostoievsky as well as to Nâgârjuna, the Ch'an masters, Shinran, Dôgen, and other Buddhist thinkers. This book--a translation of the most seminal work of Nishida's career--also includes a translation of his "Last Writing" (Zeppitsu), written just two days before his death.

Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview

History

Asia

University of Hawaii Press

Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness: Three Philosophical Essays

Praeger

Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness (Philosophy (Dis))

Nishida Kitaro's reformulation of the major issues of Western philosophy from a Zen standpoint of "absolute nothingness" and "absolutely contradictory self-identity" represents the boldest speculative enterprise of modern Japan, continued today by his successors in the "Kyoto School" of philosophy.This English translation of Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness evokes the movement and flavor of the original, clarifies its obscurities, and eliminates the repetitions. It sheds new light on the philosopher's career, revealing a long struggle with such thinkers as Cohen, Natorp, Husserl, Fichte, and Bergson, that ended with Nishida's break from the basic ontological assumptions of the West. Throughout labyrinthine arguments, Nishida never loses sight of his theme: the irreducibility and unobjectifiability of the act of self-consciousness which constitutes the self. Extensive annotation is provided for the first time in any edition of Nishida's work.Historians of Japanese philosophy and culture, and all those interested in the interaction of Eastern and Western thought-forms, now have a document which highlights many of the cultural, psychological, and intellectual dynamics that have shaped Japanese intellectual life in one of its most fascinating and ambitious manifestations.

Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness (Suny Series in Philosophy) (English and Japanese Edition)

State Univ of New York Pr

Nishida Kitaro's reformulation of the major issues of Western philosophy from a Zen standpoint of "absolute nothingness" and "absolutely contradictory self-identity" represents the boldest speculative enterprise of modern Japan, continued today by his successors in the "Kyoto School" of philosophy. This English translation of Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness evokes the movement and flavor of the original, clarifies its obscurities, and eliminates the repetitions. It sheds new light on the philosopher's career, revealing a long struggle with such thinkers as Cohen, Natorp, Husserl, Fichte, and Bergson, that ended with Nishida's break from the basic ontological assumptions of the West. Throughout labyrinthine arguments, Nishida never loses sight of his theme: the irreducibility and unobjectifiability of the act of self-consciousness which constitutes the self. Extensive annotation is provided for the first time in any edition of Nishida's work. Historians of Japanese philosophy and culture, and all those interested in the interaction of Eastern and Western thought-forms, now have a document which highlights many of the cultural, psychological, and intellectual dynamics that have shaped Japanese intellectual life in one of its most fascinating and ambitious manifestations.

State University of New York Press

Traduzione e introduzione di Tiziano Tosolini In questa sua ultima opera (1945) Nishida Kitaro, padre indiscusso della moderna filosofia giapponese, si concentra sul sentimento religioso, analizzandolo attraverso una logica imperniata sul suo concetto di Nulla Assoluto, luogo ultimo in cui emergono realtà e ragione, mondo e uomo. Dialogando sulla soglia che unisce e separa la tradizione buddhista e quella cristiana, Nishida invita a pensare una religione della "trascendenza immanente", del Dio che si svuota della sua divinità per donarla alle sue creature, del Buddha che sempre è impresso nel cuore dell'uomo. Nella sua dettagliata introduzione, il traduttore, Tiziano Tosolini, ripercorre i concetti fondamentali che Nishida ha sviluppato lungo gli anni tentando di capire il retroscena filosofico che ha portato l'autore alla stesura de La logica del luogo e la visione religiosa del mondo. L'introduzione serve così da guida al lettore perché lo scritto di Nishida possa essere accolto come un testo su cui meditare, interrogarsi ed interagire. Solo così le parole di Nishida, il suo spirito indagatore e religioso, potranno risuonare in tutti coloro che si lasciano affascinare da un pensiero che ha avuto come suo unico e vero confine non tanto quello di una cultura e tradizione filosofica, ma quello più universale ed umano della ragione e della fede. (c) Chisokudo Publications 2016 | Anche disponibile in formato ebook per iTunes e Kindle.

La logica del luogo e la visione religiosa del mondo (Studies in Japanese Philosophy) (Volume 5) (Italian Edition)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Autoéveil. Le Système des universels (janvier 1930) est un livre essentiel pour comprendre la logique de Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945). Comme son titre l'indique, il est centré sur la série d'universels qui composent le système de pensée de celui qui est considéré comme le philosophe japonais le plus important du 20e siècle, de même que sur le thème de l'autoéveil qui marque, à des degrés divers, chacun de ces universels. © Chisokudo Publications | Aussi disponible en format eBook pour Apple e Kindle.

Autoeveil: Le Systeme des universels (Studies in Japanese Philosophy) (French Edition)

Tremblay, Jacynthe

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An Inquiry into the Good

An Inquiry into the Good

Ontology of Production: Three Essays (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

Ontology of Production: Three Essays (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview

Intelligibility and the Philosophy of Nothingness: Three Philosophical Essays

Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness (Suny Series in Philosophy) (English and Japanese Edition)

Intuition and Reflection in Self-Consciousness (Philosophy (Dis))

La logica del luogo e la visione religiosa del mondo (Studies in Japanese Philosophy) (Volume 5) (Italian Edition)

Autoeveil: Le Systeme des universels (Studies in Japanese Philosophy) (French Edition)