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The Philosophy of the Kyoto School

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Editors:
  1. Masakatsu Fujita

    1. Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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  • Offers major texts of the leading philosophers of the Kyoto school who opened a new prospect of philosophy within the interstice between East and West

  • Contains expository essays by leading researchers in the area to reveal the historical and actual significance of the texts included in this book

  • Provides the foundations for a new dialogue of ideas that will engender new developments in philosophy

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Nishida Kitarō

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Place (1)

      • Nishida Kitarō
      Pages 3-12

    3. The Scope of Nishida Kitarō’s Theory of Place

      • Fujita Masakatsu
      Pages 13-22

  3. Tanabe Hajime

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Clarifying the Meaning of the Logic of Species (1, 4)

      • Tanabe Hajime
      Pages 25-41

    3. What Does Absolute Negation Differentiate?

      • Nakaoka Narifumi
      Pages 43-53

  4. Miki Kiyoshi

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55
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    2. The Logic of Imagination (Preface, Chapter 1 “Myth” 1)

      • Miki Kiyoshi
      Pages 57-64

    3. The Philosophy of Miki Kiyoshi

      • Akamatsu Tsunehiro
      Pages 65-77

  5. Tosaka Jun

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. What Is the Technological Spirit?

      • Tosaka Jun
      Pages 81-88

    3. On Tosaka Jun’s Scientific-Technological Spirit

      • Nishikawa Tomio
      Pages 89-106

  6. Kimura Motomori

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Body and Spirit [Mind]

      • Kimura Motomori
      Pages 109-122

    3. Reading According to the Context: Kimura Motomori and “Body and Spirit”

      • Ōnishi Masamichi
      Pages 123-135

  7. Hisamatsu Shinichi

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. The Metaphysical Element of the East

      • Hisamatsu Shinichi
      Pages 139-148

    3. The Thought and Practice of Hisamatsu Shinichi

      • Imaizumi Motoji
      Pages 149-159

  8. Shimomura Toratarō

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
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Keywords

About this book

The main purpose of this book is to offer to philosophers and students abroad who show a great interest in Japanese philosophy and the philosophy of the Kyoto school major texts of the leading philosophers. This interest has surely developed out of a desire to obtain from the thought of these philosophers, who stood within the interstice between East and West, a clue to reassessing the issues of philosophy from the ground up or to drawing new creative possibilities.
The present condition seems to be, however, that the material made available to further realize this kind of intellectual dialogue is far too scarce. This book is intended to be of some help in this regard.
The book presents selected texts of representative philosophers of the Kyoto school such as Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe Hajime, Miki Kiyoshi, Nishitani Keiji, and others who best illustrate the characteristics of this school, and works that together portray its image as a whole. Those who are interested in Japanese philosophy or specifically the philosophy of the Kyoto School can survey a comprehensive representation from this book.
These texts are, of course, quite difficult and cannot be well understood without sufficient preliminary knowledge. Expository essays have therefore been included after each text to provide guidance. In each of these commentaries a scholar of our time with deep understanding of the philosopher in question has provided an account of his life, intellectual journey, and the significance of the text included here.
From this book will emerge a new dialogue of ideas that in turn will engender new developments in philosophy, thereby further expanding the network of philosophical thought worldwide.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Masakatsu Fujita

About the editor

Masakatsu Fujita is a professor of the Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Philosophy of the Kyoto School

  • Editors: Masakatsu Fujita

  • Translated by: Robert Chapeskie, John W. M. Krummel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8983-1

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8982-4Published: 20 October 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4289-9Published: 10 January 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8983-1Published: 10 October 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 273

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Philosophy, general

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