Richard Stone

The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy

Nishida Kitaro and the Meiji Period
Herausgeber: Kirloskar-Steinbach, Monika

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Produktbeschreibung

"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. He argues that 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.The Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy offers an engaging insight into the Meiji period, bringing Nishida's work it into dialogue with his predecessors"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350346833
• ISBN-10: 1350346837
• Artikelnr.: 72666750

Autorenporträt

Richard Stone is Assistant Professor at Waseda University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

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