Zen and Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarō 9780824865658
This is the definitive work on the first and greatest of Japan's twentieth-century philosophers, Nishida Kitaro (18
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Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword A Contemplative Life
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Conventions and Abbreviations
Prologue
1. Childhood: “White Sand, Green Pine Needles” (1870–1886)
2. Mathematics or Philosophy? (1886–1891)
3. The Imperial University (1891–1894)
4. Existential Impasse and Zen Practice (1894–1899)
5. Toward Kenshö: An Inner Journey (1899–1904)
6. The Birth of a Philosopher (1904–1907)
7. Pure Experience and On Religion (1908–1909)
8. Gakushūin in Tokyo: A Year of Transition (1909–1910)
9. Kyoto Imperial University: Early Years (1910–1912)
10. Consolidation of the Philosophy Department (1913–1917)
11. Correspondence with Tanabe Hajime (1913–1917)
12. The Calm before the Storm (1917–1919)
13. Sorrows of Life and Philosophy (1919–1922)
14. The Nishida-Einstein Connection (1920–1922)
15. An Inner Struggle and a Breakthrough (1923–1925)
16. The Logic of the Topos (1924–1926)
17. Retirement (1926–1929)
18. Formation of the Kyoto School of Philosophy (1929–1932)
19. Remarriage and Nishida’s View of Women (1927–1931)
20. Development of Personalist Dialectics (1932–1934)
21. Education and Scholarship under Fascism (1935–1937)
22. Dark Political Undercurrent (1936–1937)
23. The Dialectical World as the Absolutely Contradictory Self-Identity (1938–1940)
24. History, State, and the Individual (1940–1941)
25. Finale (1942–1945)
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary of Names and Terms
Bibliography
Index
