JAPANESE AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY:

CONVERSATIONS WITH THE KYOTO SCHOOL

EDITED BY BRET W. DAVIS, BRIAN SCHROEDER, AND JASON W. WIRTH
PUBLISHED BY INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2011
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Works by the Kyoto School
Introduction: Conversations on an Ox Path
I. THE KYOTO SCHOOL AND DIALOGUE
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Contributions to Dialogue with the Kyoto School

UEDA SHIZUTERU

Dialogue and Appropriation: The Kyoto School as Cross-Cultural Philosophy

BRET W. DAVIS

Tanabe Hajimes Logic of Species and the Philosophy of Nishida Kitar: A Critical Dialogue
Within the Kyoto School
SUGIMOTO KOICHI
II. SELF AND WORLD

Philosophy as Auto-Bio-Graphy: The Example of the Kyoto School

HASHI RYSUKE

Nishitani after Nietzsche: From the Death of God to the Great Death of the Will
BRET W. DAVIS

Empty Soul, Empty World: Nietzsche and Nishitani

DAVID JONES

Ueda Shizuterus Phenomenology of Self and World: Critical Dialogues with Descartes,
Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty
STEFFEN DLL

III. GOD AND NOTHINGNESS

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Nothing Gives: Marion and Nishida on Gift-giving and God

JOHN C. MARALDO

Language Games, Selflessness, and the Death of God: A/Theology in Contemporary Zen
Philosophy and Deconstruction
GEREON KOPF

10 Buddha and God: Nishidas Contributions to a New Apocalyptic Theology

THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER
IV. ETHICS AND POLITICS
11 Other-Power and Absolute Passivity in Tanabe and Levinas
BRIAN SCHROEDER
12 Beyond the Binary: Watsuji Testur and Luce Irigaray on Body, Self, and Ethics
ERIN MCCARTHY
13 Overcoming Modernity: A Critical Response to the Kyoto School
BERNARD STEVENS
14 Heidegger and Japanese Fascism: An Unsubstantiated Connection
GRAHAM PARKES
V. GRAMMAR, ART AND IMAGINATION
15 The Middle Voice of Emptiness: Nishida and Nishitani
ROLF ELBERFELD
16 Truly Nothing: The Kyoto School and Art
JASON M. WIRTH
17 Logos and Pathos: Miki Kiyoshis Logic of the Imagination
FUJITA MASAKATSU

List of Contributors
Index