The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism by Keiji Nishitani (English) Paperback Book

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

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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Notes on Texts Preface to the First Edition One Nihilism as Existence 1. Two Problems 2. Nihilism and the Philosophy of History 3. European Nihilism Two From Realism to Nihilism: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach 1. Hegel's Absolute Idealism and Radical Realism 2. Schopenhauer-Will as Real-The Nullity of Existence 3. Kierkegaard-Becoming and Existence 4. Feuerbach-Critique of Religion, Philosophy, and Ethics Three Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Consummate Nihilist 1. The Significance of Nihilism in Nietzsche 2. Radical Nihilism 3. Nietzsche's Interpretation of Christianity 4. The Concept of "Sincerity"-"Will to Illusion" Four Nietzsche's Affirmative Nihilism: Amor Fati and Eternal Recurrence 1. Value-Interpretation and Perspectivism 2. The Problem of Amor Fati Index

Review

"As a past reader of Nishitani in both the original Japanese and English translation, I find this manuscript to be the most accessible and clearly written of any book-length work I have read by him. It shows Nishitani as a vital and vigorous thinker, and serves as an introduction to his widely acclaimed Religion and Nothingness. "The summaries of the relation to nihilism of Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Stirner, a nearly forgotten figure in intellectual history, are all perspicacious. Even the chapters on Nietzsche, about whom volumes are written these days, provide new insights. The brief section on the problem of nihilism for Japan is unprecedented in the English literature, and the sketches on karma and historicity whet the appetite for the more extensive and difficult expositions in Religion and Nothingness. "It will be mandatory reading for an understanding of both Nishitani's thought and the problem of nihilism. Scholars and other persons interested in nihilism, in Nietzsche, and/or in contemporary Buddhist or Japanese philosophy, will greatly profit from a study of this book." - John C. Maraldo, Department of Philosophy, University of North Florida "This is a fine translation of an important work in the corpus of Nishitani's early writings. The translation is timely both because of the Western interest in Nishitani as a preeminent contemporary Japanese philosopher and because of the continuing Western perplexity about the problems Nishitani addresses. Nishitani is one of the world's greatest living philosophers and even in this early work of his that brilliance shines through." - Thomas P. Kasulis, Department of Philosophy, Northland College

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"As a past reader of Nishitani in both the original Japanese and English translation, I find this manuscript to be the most accessible and clearly written of any book-length work I have read by him. It shows Nishitani as a vital and vigorous thinker, and serves as an introduction to his widely acclaimed Religion and Nothingness. "The summaries of the relation to nihilism of Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Stirner, a nearly forgotten figure in intellectual history, are all perspicacious. Even the chapters on Nietzsche, about whom volumes are written these days, provide new insights. The brief section on the problem of nihilism for Japan is unprecedented in the English literature, and the sketches on karma and historicity whet the appetite for the more extensive and difficult expositions in Religion and Nothingness. "It will be mandatory reading for an understanding of both Nishitani's thought and the problem of nihilism. Scholars and other persons interested in nihilism, in Nietzsche, and/or in contemporary Buddhist or Japanese philosophy, will greatly profit from a study of this book." -- John C. Maraldo, Department of Philosophy, University of North Florida "This is a fine translation of an important work in the corpus of Nishitani's early writings. The translation is timely both because of the Western interest in Nishitani as a preeminent contemporary Japanese philosopher and because of the continuing Western perplexity about the problems Nishitani addresses. Nishitani is one of the world's greatest living philosophers and even in this early work of his that brilliance shines through." -- Thomas P. Kasulis, Department of Philosophy, Northland College

Details ISBN0791404382 Author Setsuko Aihara Short Title SELF-OVERCOMING OF NIHILISM Publisher State University of New York Press Language English ISBN-10 0791404382 ISBN-13 9780791404386 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 149.8 Year 1990 Birth 1900 Translator Setsuko Aihara Pages 274 Place of Publication Albany, NY Country of Publication United States Illustrations Total Illustrations: 0 AU Release Date 1990-10-02 NZ Release Date 1990-10-02 US Release Date 1990-10-02 UK Release Date 1990-10-02 Series SUNY series in Modern Japanese Philosophy Publication Date 1990-10-02 Imprint State University of New York Press Alternative 9780791404379 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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