Political philosophy in Japan
Subtitle: Nishida, the Kyoto School, and co-prosperity
By: Christopher S. Goto-Jones.
Publisher: Routledge Curzon
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Nishida, Kitarō, 1870-1945 -- Political and social views.; Political science -- Japan -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Political philosophy in Japan and the contradictory location of Nishida tetsugaku; title: Theorising dissent-intellectuals, language, and political sleight-of-hand; title: The politics of harmony and awakening-Confucianism and Buddhism as political thought in Japan; title: The early Nishida and the place of Japanese political philosophy; title: (Re)locating the later Nishida-ideology & philosophy in wartime Japan; title: Nishida's shadow-the Kyoto School and the manipulation of nothingness; title: The philosophical site of politics in Japan.