Zen & philosophy : an intellectual biography of Nishida Kitaro / Michiko Yusa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yusa, Michiko.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nishida, Kitarō, 1870-1945.

Nishida, Kitarō.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (510 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Zen and philosophy

Place of Publication:

Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

This is the definitive work on the first and greatest of Japan's twentieth-century philosophers, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945). Interspersed throughout the narrative of Nishida's life and thought is a generous selection of the philosopher's own essays, letters, and short presentations, newly translated into English.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Foreword by Raimon Panikkar vii

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xv

Conventions and Abbreviations xxv

Prologue 1

1. Childhood: "White Sand, Green Pine Needles" (1870-1886) 5

2. Mathematics or Philosophy? (1886-1891) 16

3. The Imperial University (1891-1894) 30

The Limited Status Program at the College of Humanities at the

Imperial University around 1891-1892 41

4. Existential Impasse and Zen Practice (1894-1899) 45

5. Toward Kensho: An Inner Journey (1899-1904) 59

Nishida's Letter to D. T. Suzuki concerning Zen Practice 73

6. The Birth of a Philosopher (1904-1907) 76

In Memory of My Deceased Child 90

7. Pure Experience and On Religion (1908-1909) 96

8. Gakushfin in Tokyo: AYear of Transition (1909-1910) 103

On Lafcadio Hearn 113

9. Kyoto Imperial University: Early Years (1910-1912) 117

10. Consolidation of the Philosophy Department (1913-1917) 135

11. Correspondence with Tanabe Hajime (1913-1917) 151

12. The Calm before the Storm (1917-1919) 161

13. Sorrows of Life and Philosophy (1919-1922) 171

14. The Nishida-Einstein Connection (1920-1922) 185

15. An Inner Struggle and a Breakthrough (1923-1925) 188

16. The Logic of the Topos (1924-1926) 202

17. Retirement (1926-1929) 210

A Retirement Speech of a Professor 224

18. Formation of the Kyoto School of Philosophy (1929-1932) 227

19. Remarriage and Nishida's View of Women (1927-1931) 234

From a Letter to Watsuji Tetsur 245

Even the Cat Is Dead 246

20. Development of Personalist Dialectics (1932-1934) 248

21. Education and Scholarship under Fascism (1935-1937) 262

On the Scholarly Method: A Public Talk at Hibiya Park 271

22. Dark Political Undercurrent (1936-1937) 278

23. The Dialectical World as the Absolutely Contradictory

Self-Identity (1938-1940) 290

My Philosophical Path 301

24. History, State, and the Individual (1940-1941) 305

A New Year's Lecture to the Emperor: On the Philosophy of History 314

25. Finale (1942-1945) 319

In Memory of My Eldest Daughter, Ueda Yayoi 332

Epilogue 336

Notes 341

Glossary 403

Bibliography 423

Index 455.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824865658

0824865650

9780585467542

0585467544

OCLC:

878137518