Zen & philosophy an intellectual biography of Nishida Kitarō /

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Main Author: Yusa, Michiko
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Foreword by Raimon Panikkar vii
  • Acknowledgments xiii
  • Introduction xv
  • Conventions and Abbreviations xxv
  • Prologue 1
  • 1. Childhood: "White Sand, Green Pine Needles" (1870-1886) 5
  • 2. Mathematics or Philosophy? (1886-1891) 16
  • 3. The Imperial University (1891-1894) 30
  • 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
  • 5. Toward Kensho: An Inner Journey (1899-1904) 59
  • Nishida's Letter to D. T. Suzuki concerning Zen Practice 73
  • 6. The Birth of a Philosopher (1904-1907) 76
  • In Memory of My Deceased Child 90
  • 7. Pure Experience and On Religion (1908-1909) 96
  • 8. Gakushfin in Tokyo: AYear of Transition (1909-1910) 103
  • On Lafcadio Hearn 113
  • 9. Kyoto Imperial University: Early Years (1910-1912) 117
  • 10. Consolidation of the Philosophy Department (1913-1917) 135
  • 11. Correspondence with Tanabe Hajime (1913-1917) 151
  • 12. The Calm before the Storm (1917-1919) 161
  • 13. Sorrows of Life and Philosophy (1919-1922) 171
  • 14. The Nishida-Einstein Connection (1920-1922) 185
  • 15. An Inner Struggle and a Breakthrough (1923-1925) 188
  • 16. The Logic of the Topos (1924-1926) 202
  • 17. Retirement (1926-1929) 210
  • A Retirement Speech of a Professor 224
  • 18. Formation of the Kyoto School of Philosophy (1929-1932) 227
  • 19. Remarriage and Nishida's View of Women (1927-1931) 234
  • From a Letter to Watsuji Tetsur 245
  • Even the Cat Is Dead 246
  • 20. Development of Personalist Dialectics (1932-1934) 248
  • 21. Education and Scholarship under Fascism (1935-1937) 262
  • On the Scholarly Method: A Public Talk at Hibiya Park 271
  • 22. Dark Political Undercurrent (1936-1937) 278
  • 23. The Dialectical World as the Absolutely Contradictory
  • Self-Identity (1938-1940) 290
  • My Philosophical Path 301
  • 24. History, State, and the Individual (1940-1941) 305
  • A New Year's Lecture to the Emperor: On the Philosophy of History 314
  • 25. Finale (1942-1945) 319
  • In Memory of My Eldest Daughter, Ueda Yayoi 332
  • Epilogue 336
  • Notes 341
  • Glossary 403
  • Bibliography 423
  • Index 455.