Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview: Last Writing Paper - Softcover

Kitaro, Nishida; Nishida; Nishida, Kitaro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0824815548 ISBN 13: 9780824815547

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 1987

Synopsis

His final essay, "The Logic of the Place of Nothingness and the Religious Worldview," completed in the last few months before his death, is a summation of his philosophy of religion and has come to be regarded as the foundational text of the Kyoto school. It is one of the few places in his writings where Nishida draws openly and freely on East Asian Buddhist sources as analogs of his own ideas. Here Nishida argues for the existential primordiality of the religious consciousness against Kant, while also critically engaging the thought of such authors as Aristotle, the Christian Neo-Platonists, Spinoza, Fichte, Hegel, Barth, and Tillich. He makes it clear that he is also indebted to Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Dostoievsky as well as to Nagarjuna, the Ch'an masters, Shinran, Dogen, and other Buddhist thinkers. This book-a translation of the most seminal work of Nishida's career-also includes a translation of his "Last Writing" (Zeppitsu), written just two days before his death.

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Last Writings represents a quantum leap in the West's understanding of a significant segment of modern Japanese philosophy and through it, of the religious treasure house out of which it emerged.-- "Monumenta Nipponica"

This little book will further inspire burgeoning Buddhist-Christian conversation.-- "Religious Studies Review"

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0824815548
• ISBN 13: 9780824815547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164