Nishida Kitarō
By: Nishitani Keiji ; translated by Yamamoto Seisaku & James W. Heisig ; introduction by D.S. Clarke, Jr.
Series: Nanzan studies in religion and culture
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Nishida, Kitarō, 1870-1945
Description: In recent years several books by major figures in Japan's modern philosophical tradition have appeared in English, exciting readers by their explorations of the borderlands between philosophy and religion. What has been wanting, however, is a book in a Western language to elucidate the life and thought of Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), Japan's first philosopher of world stature and the originator of what has come to be called the Kyoto School. No one is more qualified to write such a book than Nishitani Keiji, whose lifetime coincides with the rise and flowering of the Kyoto School and whose own critical contribution to Japanese thought has been so important.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of: Nishida Kitarō.