Kierkegaard and Japanese thought / edited by James Giles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giles, James, 1958-

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Philosophy, Japanese.

Philosophy, Comparative.

Physical Description:

xiv, 250 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Contents:

Introduction : Kierkegaard among the temples of Kamakura / James Giles

A short history of Kierkegaard's reception in Japan / Kinya Masugata

Japanese Pure Land Buddism and Kierkegaard / Hidetomo Yamashita

A Zen understanding of Kierkegaard's existential thought / Eshin Nishimura

To practise one thing : Kierkegaard through the eyes of Dogen / James Giles

Aeterno Modo : the expression of integral consciousness in Kierkegaard and Dogen / Ian Mills

Truth, paradox and silence : Hakuin and Kierkegaard / Archie Graham

Living with death : Kierkegaard and the samurai / Adam Buben

Kierkegaard and Nishida : the substantial, the non-substantial, and beyond / Eiko Hanaoka

The religious thought of Nishida and Kierkegaard / Shudo Tsukiyama

Kobayashi's spirit of unselfishness and Kierkegaard's faith / Makuto Mizuta

Kierkegaard and Mori : experience and existence / Mime Morita

Otani : a Kierkegaardian Fellow of the Dead / Kinya Masugata

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0230552838

9780230552838

OCLC:

191023777

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