Zen & Philosophy

by Yusa, Michiko

• ISBN13: 9780824824594
• ISBN10: 0824824598
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

This is the definitive work on the first and greatest of Japan's twentieth-century philosophers, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945). Interspersed throughout the narrative of Nishida's life and thought is a generous selection of the philosopher's own essays, letters, and short presentations, newly translated into English.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Raimon Panikkar
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	xv
Conventions and Abbreviations	xxv
Prologue	1	(4)
Childhood: ``White Sand, Green Pine Needles'' (1870-1886)	5	(11)
Mathematics or Philosophy? (1886-1891)	16	(14)
The Imperial University (1891-1894)	30	(15)
The Limited Status Program at the College of Humanities at the Imperial University around (1891-1892)	41	(4)
Existential Impasse and Zen Practice (1894-1899)	45	(14)
Toward Kensho: An Inner Journey (1899-1904)	59	(17)
Nishida's Letter to D. T. Suzuki concerning Zen Practice	73	(3)
The Birth of a Philosopher (1904-1907)	76	(20)
In Memory of My Deceased Child	90	(6)
Pure Experience and On Religion (1908-1909)	96	(7)
Gakushuin in Tokyo: A Year of Transition (1909-1910)	103	(14)
On Lafcadio Hearn	113	(4)
Kyoto Imperial University: Early Years (1910-1912)	117	(18)
Consolidation of the Philosophy Department (1913-1917)	135	(16)
Correspondence with Tanabe Hajime (1913-1917)	151	(10)
The Calm before the Storm (1917-1919)	161	(10)
Sorrows of Life and Philosophy (1919-1922)	171	(14)
The Nishida-Einstein Connection (1920-1922)	185	(3)
An Inner Struggle and a Breakthrough (1923-1925)	188	(14)
The Logic of the Topos (1924-1926)	202	(8)
Retirement (1926-1929)	210	(17)
A Retirement Speech of a Professor	224	(3)
Formation of the Kyoto School of Philosophy (1929-1932)	227	(7)
Remarriage and Nishida's View of Women (1927-1931)	234	(14)
From a Letter to Watsuji Tetsuro	245	(1)
Even the Cat Is Dead	246	(2)
Development of Personalist Dialectics (1932-1934)	248	(14)
Education and Scholarship under Fascism (1935-1937)	262	(16)
On the Scholarly Method: A Public Talk at Hibiya Park	271	(7)
Dark Political Undercurrent (1936-1937)	278	(12)
The Dialectical World as the Absolutely Contradictory Self Identity (1938-1940)	290	(15)
My Philosophical Path	301	(4)
History, State, and the Individual (1940-1941)	305	(14)
A New Year's Lecture to the Emperor: On the Philosophy of History	314	(5)
Finale (1942-1945)	319	(17)
In Memory of My Eldest Daughter, Ueda Yayoi	332	(4)
Epilogue	336	(5)
Notes	341	(62)
Glossary	403	(20)
Bibliography	423	(32)
Index	455