Kyoto school philosophy in comparative perspective : ideology, ontology, modernity

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    • Stevens, Bernard

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Kyoto school philosophy in comparative perspective : ideology, ontology, modernity

Bernard Stevens

Lexington Books, c2023

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Includes bibliographical references (p.151-161) and index

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Kyoto School Philosophy in Comparative Perspective: Ideology, Ontology, Modernity presents the thought of the Kyoto School, the most famous Japanese philosophical movement of the twentieth century, by comparing the philosophy of its most representative members-Nishida and Nishitani-with some better known thinkers in the West: Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Michel Henry. Bernard Stevens highlights the proximity of this movement of thought to the European phenomenological current that influenced it. However, the book also addresses an eminently problematic reality: the affiliation of some of its members with the militarism of the 1930s and 1940s. The political philosophers Arendt and Maruyama provide useful guidance here, in clarifying one of the central issues of this episode: the ideology of "overcoming modernity", supported by some of the younger disciples of Nishida. This book proposes intellectual conditions for both critical and appreciative receptions of one of the most fascinating philosophical adventures of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: A Few Observations on Maruyama Masao Chapter 2: Arendt and Maruyama: Two Complementary Approaches to Totalitarianism Chapter 3: Modernity and Its Overcoming Chapter 4: Political Engagement and Political Judgment in the Thought of Nishitani Keiji Chapter 5: The Dimensions of Time Reflected in the Thought of Nishitani Keiji Chapter 6: Reflections on the Notion of Reality in the Thought of Nishida and Nishitani Chapter 7: Nishida Kitaro and Michel Henry: Philosophers of Life Chapter 8: Self in Space: Nishida, Merleau-Ponty and Michel Henry Chapter 9: The Intercultural and Daseinsanalytical Psychiatry of Kimura Bin Conclusion: The Pine Tree

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