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  • The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy: Nishida Kitaro and the Meiji Period

    The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy by Stone, Richard;

    Nishida Kitaro and the Meiji Period

    Series: Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 13 June 2024
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781350346796
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages200 pages
    • Size 238x164x18 mm
    • Weight 460 g
    • Language English
    • 561

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    Long description:

    Nishida Kitaro is widely considered as the first original philosopher in modern Japan. Addressing this claim, Richard Stone critically examines Nishida's relation to his contemporary philosophers in the Meiji era (1868-1912), highlighting the continuity, difference and relationships between them.

    Stone reassesses the notion that Nishida's An Inquiry into the Good (1911) was substantially more philosophically worthwhile than any preceding attempts at philosophy in Japan, whilst demonstrating how his early ideas were heavily influenced by the work of thinkers such as Inoue Enryo, Onishi Hajime and Miyake Setsurei. He argues that original philosophy in Japan did not suddenly start with Nishida. Instead, it developed within a process of methodological refinement, wherein ideas starting from early Meiji philosophers were gradually given more rigorous treatment over the course of the era, eventually culminating in Nishida's early philosophy.

    Providing an in-depth analysis of Nishida's work that brings it into dialogue with his predecessors, The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy offers both an engaging insight into the Meiji Period as the background of Nishida's philosophical formation and also a clear account of how several core themes in modern Japanese philosophy evolved over the course of an era.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Acknowledgements
    List of Abbreviations
    Timeline

    Introduction
    1. The Middle Path and Pure Experience: A Re-Evaluation of the 'Beginning' of Modern Japanese Philosophy
    2. Direct Experience and the Problem of Meaning: Motora Yujiro, Nishida Kitaro, and Takahashi Satomi
    3. Individualism and Pure Experience: Interpreting the Early Nishida's Ethics with Reference to the Theory of Self-Realization
    4. Re-visiting the 'True' Self in An Inquiry into the Good: As Seen from the Perspective of Meiji Organicism
    Conclusion: Continuities and Discontinuities with the Meiji Era - Nishida Kitaro as a Turning Point
    Notes
    References
    Index

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