The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism

Translation of an important work by the contemporary Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani.

About the author

Nishitani Keiji was for many years Professor of Religious Philosophy at Kyoto University, and since his retirement has been Professor Emeritus at Otani Buddhist University in Kyoto. Graham Parkes is Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is the editor of Heidegger and Asian Thought and Nietzsche and Asian Thought. Setsuko Aihara teaches Japanese at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and is the author of Reading Japanese: Strategies for Decoding Japanese Sentence Structure.

Product details

• Authors: Keiji Nishitani
• Assisted by: Setsuko Aihara (Translation), Graham Parkes (Translation)
• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.10.1990
• EAN: 9780791404386
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0438-6
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 452 g
• Series: Suny Series in Modern Japanese; Suny Series in Modern Japanese; Suny Modern Japanese Philosoph
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day