Title: Nishida Kitarō's chiasmatic chorology : place of dialectic, dialectic of place /
Authors: Krummel, John Wesley Megumu, 1965-
Year: 2015
Subjects: Nishida, Kitarō,; Nishida, Kitarō,; Dialectic.; Dialectic.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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 involving acting persons (from the 1930s to the 1940s) -- 6. The dialectic of the world-matrix involving the dialectical universal and contradictory identity (from the 1930s to the 1940s) -- 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.