Anglo-American Influences on Nishida Kitarō
Atsuko Hirai
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks 1988 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08682-5_2 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Describes Nishida Kitarō as widely regarded, in non-Marxist scholarship in Japan and the West, as modern Japan's most important philosopher and its most "Oriental" and original one, a reputation attributed to his teaching at Kyoto Imperial University (1910–28), his Zen practice, and his treatises. The text states that his Hegel-like state theory and unorthodox use of Western concepts contributed to the canonical status of "Nishida philosophy" in nationalistic 1930s Japan. |
Abstract
In non-Marxist scholarship in both Japan and the West, Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945) enjoys the reputation of being the most important philosopher of modern Japan as well as the most ‘Oriental’ and original one. He earned this renown by teaching philosophy at Kyoto Imperial University (1910–28), intensely practising Zen meditation and writing scores of treatises with concepts that did not always conform to the Western categories of thought he used. Partly for this reason, and partly because of his Hegel-like state theory, Nishida tetsugaku (‘Nishida philosophy’) held a canonical status in the nationalistic Japan of the 1930s. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.