Sourcebook for Modern Japanese Philosophy - Selected Documents

Providing translations of and commentaries on primary source materials of modern Japanese philosophy, this sourcebook centers on the creative philosophical writings of the Kyoto School broadly conceived, featuring the thought of Nishida Kitarô, Tanabe Hajime, Kuki Shûzô, Watsuji Tetsurô, Miki Kiyoshi, Tosaka Jun, and Nishitani Keiji. The 22 selections include unabridged whole works, essays, or chapters of books. Also included is exhaustive bio-bibliographical information as well as editorial commentary. For most scholars, this will be the first look in English at the thought of Kuki Shûzô, Miki Kiyoshi, and the Marxist critic Tosaka Jun. The sourcebook will be of interest to scholars,

The selections show the intensely dialogic character of the philsophical writing of the Kyoto School of the early Showa period (1926-1949) and are of particular interest as representing philosophical strains of a golden age of Japanese thought during the war years between 1935 and 1945. In the interstices of the thought of the seven authors, the reader will find a mine of commentary on, and assimilation of, the schools of Western thought and the world's religions, accompanied (with the exception of the internationalist Tosaka Jun) by very resilient affirmations of the strength of Asian traditions.

List of contents

Preface
Nishida Kitarô (1870-1945)
Tanabe Hajime (1885-1962)
Kuki Shûzô (1888-1943)
Watsuji Tetsurô (1889-1960)
Miki Kiyoshi (1897-1945)
Tosaka Jun (1900-1945)
Nishitani Keiji (1900-1991)
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

David A. Dilworth, Valdo H. Viglielmo, Agustin J. Zavala

Product details

• Authors: David Dilworth, David A. Dilworth, Valdo Viglielmo, Valdo H. Viglielmo, Agustin Zavala, Agustin J. Zavala
• Assisted by: David A. Dilworth (Editor), Agustin Jacinto Zavala (Editor), Augustin Jacinto Zavala (Editor)
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.1998
• EAN: 9780313274336
• ISBN: 978-0-313-27433-6
• No. of pages: 444
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 828 g
• Series: Resources in Asian Philosophy; Resources in Asian Philosophy
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works