Nishida Kitaro's Chiasmatic Chorology: Place of Dialectic, Dialectic of Place

by John W. M. Krummel

Overview

Nishida Kitarō (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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253017536
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	09/01/2015
Series:	World Philosophies
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

John W. M. Krummel is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Table of Contents

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 (From the 1930s to the 1940s): Acting Persons
6. The Dialectic of the World-Matrix (From the 1930s to the 1940s): The Dialectical Universal and Contradictory Identity
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
Lexicon
Notes
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

Trent University - Robert E. Carter

"John W. M. Krummel's analysis of Nishida's dialectic takes readers to the core of Nishida's epistemology and metaphyics. It is a central study."

coeditor of Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School - Jason M. Wirth

"One of a handful of genuinely significant studies of Nishida in the English language. It has perhaps the most thorough overview of the trajectory of the historical in Nishida's thinking while providing interesting and original philosophical engagements."

coeditor of Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School - Jason M. Wirth

One of a handful of genuinely significant studies of Nishida in the English language. It has perhaps the most thorough overview of the trajectory of the historical in Nishida's thinking while providing interesting and original philosophical engagements.

Editorial Reviews

"The current volume constitutes an enormous contribution to Nishida scholarship, comparative philosophy, and postmodern visions of and for a global world. It provides inspiring scholarship on Nishida and, at the same time, invites subsequent creative reflections. In short, it constitutes philosophical reflection at its best."—Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

"[This] volume constitutes an enormous contribution to Nishida scholarship, comparative philosophy, and postmodern visions of and for a global world. It provides inspiring scholarship on Nishida and, at the same time, invites subsequent creative reflections. In short, it constitutes philosophical reflection at its best."—Journal of Japanese Studies

"One of a handful of genuinely significant studies of Nishida in the English language. It has perhaps the most thorough overview of the trajectory of the historical in Nishida's thinking while providing interesting and original philosophical engagements."—Jason M. Wirth, coeditor of Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School

"John W. M. Krummel's analysis of Nishida's dialectic takes readers to the core of Nishida's epistemology and metaphyics. It is a central study."—Robert E. Carter, Trent University

From the Publisher

[This] volume constitutes an enormous contribution to Nishida scholarship, comparative philosophy, and postmodern visions of and for a global world. It provides inspiring scholarship on Nishida and, at the same time, invites subsequent creative reflections. In short, it constitutes philosophical reflection at its best.

Journal of Japanese Studies

The current volume constitutes an enormous contribution to Nishida scholarship, comparative philosophy, and postmodern visions of and for a global world. It provides inspiring scholarship on Nishida and, at the same time, invites subsequent creative reflections. In short, it constitutes philosophical reflection at its best.

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

[T]he current volume constitutes an enormous contribution to Nishida scholarship, comparative philosophy, and postmodern visions of and for a global world. It provides inspiring scholarship on Nishida and, at the same time, invites subsequent creative reflections. In short, it constitutes philosophical reflection at its best.

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